Little Russia
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The community grew so large that in 1981 New York magazine ran a five-page spread titled “A Little Russia Grows in Brooklyn.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2022
Mr. Davidzon, 53, serves as a kingmaker in Brighton Beach, Sheepshead Bay and Manhattan Beach, the neighborhoods known collectively as Little Russia.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2012
They went to a store called Little Russia and looked at the lacquered dolls there.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 26, 2010
Born in Little Russia in 1879, the son of a Jewish farmer, Trotsky early became class-conscious.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he was not versifying, he was making jokes, telling anecdotes or trying to speak Little-Russian to Purring Cat, who, being from Little Russia, answered his questions with smiling passivity.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan
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