Tartary

[ tahr-tuh-ree ]

/ ˈtɑr tə ri /

noun

the historical name of a region of indefinite extent in E Europe and Asia: designates the area overrun by the Tartars in the Middle Ages, from the Dnieper River to the Pacific.

Also Tatary.

Origin of Tartary

1350–1400; Middle English Tartarye < Middle French Tartarie < Medieval Latin Tartaria. See tartar, -y³

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Examples from the Web for tartary

If you cannot protect your own knights, how can you protect the emissaries from Tartary?
The Saracen: Land of the Infidel|Robert Shea
Now what would they think, if we should tell them that they would be better off in New Holland or in Tartary?
Thoughts on African Colonization|William Lloyd Garrison
We are told that in Tartary each native makes the iron he needs, just as every household would make its own bread.
The Prehistoric World|E. A. Allen
There are sheep in Tartary that eat bones like dogs, and in Hindustan and Nepaul there are kinds that have four horns each.
Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found|Mayne Reid

Their geographical position isolated them from all the rest of the world, excepting the rude nomads of Tartary.
The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg,|Alexander Michie

British Dictionary definitions for tartary

Tartary

/ (ˈtɑːtərɪ) /

noun

a variant spelling of Tatary

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