Tartary
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Tartary
1350–1400; Middle English Tartarye < Middle French Tartarie < Medieval Latin Tartaria. See tartar, -y 3
Example Sentences
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When a similar coup takes place in nearby Crim Tartary, little Princess Rosalba flees into the forest, where she is raised by lions.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2018
As shaggy as the mythical Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, willow buds emerge covered in dense woolly fur, as soft as a kitten’s paws.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2018
The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, bearing resemblance to a woolly fern.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 7, 2013
As Food Week comes to an end here at SciAmBlogs, I thought it important to consider that which sits on the precipice of the animal and the vegetable: The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 7, 2013
Friar William was sent partly as an ambassador and partly as an explorer by Louis IX. of France into Tartary.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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