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
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
Lee connected the myth of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary to the Indian cotton-pod, pointing to yet another moniker, ‘the Scythian Lamb’.
From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2013
The whole force of England in those waters was at that moment engaged in blockading the Russian fleet in the Bay of Castris in the Gulf of Tartary.
From Modern Magic by Vere, Maximilian Schele de
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