Pinsk
[ pinsk; Russian pyeensk ]
/ pɪnsk; Russian pyinsk /
noun
a city in SW Byelorussia (Belarus), E of Brest.
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Example sentences from the Web for pinsk
While not quite so extensive as the Pinsk Swamps, they are quite as impassable, from a military point of view.
As a proof of this statement I may cite the draining of the great Pinsk swamps, which was begun by the Government in 1872.
Russia|Donald Mackenzie WallacePlagues of rates have appeared at Pinsk, and in the British trenches.
During the day many more of the relatives arrived, among them several members of the family from the Russian city of Pinsk.
Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch|Ulrich Frank
British Dictionary definitions for pinsk
Pinsk
/ (Russian pinsk) /
noun
a city in SW Belarus: capital of a principality (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
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