Tartarian

American  

[tahr-tair-ee-uhn] / tɑrˈtɛər i ən /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a Tartar or the Tartars, the Mongolian and Turkish tribes who overran Asia and much of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.

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Tartarian British  

/ tɑːˈtɛərɪən /

adjective

1. a variant spelling of Tatarian See Tatarian

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Etymology

Origin of Tartarian

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; see Tartar, -ian

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Example Sentences

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Tartarian

Before the hoopla has subsided, Mazeppa, traditionally played by a curve-some female, has been tied to a "fiery Tartarian steed." headed precipitously away from the lone Polish prairie.

From Time Magazine Archive

The flowers of Tartarian honeysuckle have no smell.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Tartarian honeysuckle reminded me of Tartarus, the land of the dead in Virgil’s Aeneid, the underworld, where the shades of the dead whispered in the shadows.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The vine was Tartarian honeysuckle, a weed that grows in waste places and on abandoned ground.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

They had crossed the Euxine Sea to Armenia, whence they travelled by land to the court of a great Tartarian chief named Barba.

From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza

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