Muscovy

[ muhs-kuh-vee ]

noun

Also called Grand Duchy of Muscovy. a principality founded c1271 and centered on the ancient city of Moscow. Its rulers gradually gained control over the neighboring Great Russian principalities and established the Russian Empire under the czars.
Archaic. Moscow.

Archaic. Russia.

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How to use Muscovy in a sentence

In the centuries that followed, Muscovy transformed into Russia.
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The facilities, even for diplomatic correspondence, with so distant a country as Muscovy, were very scanty.
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Muscovy talck is remarkable for the thin and transparent flakes into which it is divisible, and thereby capable of various uses.
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The Princess and her guard were left alone with the secretary and the unconscious body of the Prince of Muscovy.
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And the Prince of Muscovy twirled his moustache and smiled condescendingly between his fingers.
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She dropped on her knees before the Prince of Muscovy and clasped her hands in supplication.
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British Dictionary definitions for Muscovy

Muscovy

/ (ˈmʌskəvɪ) /

noun

a Russian principality (13th to 16th centuries), of which Moscow was the capital
an archaic name for Russia, Moscow

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