pyat

/ ˈpaɪət /

noun

1. the magpie

adjective

1. pied

Word History and Origins

Origin of pyat¹

Middle English piot, from _pie ²

Example Sentences

I consumed everything by Robert Graves and Mary Renault, then Orwell, Hemingway, Guy de Maupassant, and Michael Moorcock’s Colonel Pyat novels in a frenzy until I discovered Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pushkin, Lermontov and, my favorites, Isaac Babel and Kurban Said’s “Ali and Nino,” which infected me with a feverish fascination for Russia and the Caucasus that led me to go out there in 1991 as the U.S.S.R. dissolved.

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Well, now the lucky man — Roman Burtsev, a Moscow-area emergency services officer according to the Hollywood Reporter — has cashed in on his thirty seconds of Internet fame as the star of a new ad for Russian vodka brand Pyat Ozer.

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“Not all your enemies are in the Yellow City. Beware men with cold hearts and blue lips. You had not been gone from Qarth a fortnight when Pyat Pree set out with three of his fellow warlocks, to seek for you in Pentos.”

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Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyat posted an aerial map of the Debeltseve area on his Twitter account showing what he said he believed were at least five positions of Russian Army artillery inside eastern Ukraine.

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"We have seen only the parts of Qarth that Pyat Pree wished us to see," she went on.

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