Muscovy
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.
Putin’s war aims to undo the traumas of the 1990s for Russians | Alexandra (Sasha) Zborovsky | February 27, 2022 | Washington PostThe facilities, even for diplomatic correspondence, with so distant a country as Muscovy, were very scanty.
History of the Rise of the Huguenots | Henry BairdMuscovy talck is remarkable for the thin and transparent flakes into which it is divisible, and thereby capable of various uses.
The Princess and her guard were left alone with the secretary and the unconscious body of the Prince of Muscovy.
Joan of the Sword Hand | S(amuel) R(utherford) CrockettAnd the Prince of Muscovy twirled his moustache and smiled condescendingly between his fingers.
Joan of the Sword Hand | S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett
She dropped on her knees before the Prince of Muscovy and clasped her hands in supplication.
Joan of the Sword Hand | S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett
British Dictionary definitions for Muscovy
/ (ˈmʌskəvɪ) /
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