telega
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of telega
First recorded in 1550–60; from Russian teléga, probably ultimately from Mongolian; compare classical Mongolian telege(n) “carriage”
Example Sentences
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The telega in which we were seated—a four-wheeled skeleton cart—did not submit to the ill-treatment so silently.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
Curiously primitive, the telega is four-wheeled, with two planks thrown crudely across the axle-trees.
From The Secret of the Night by Gaston Leroux
Rezanov stood the telega exactly half a day.
From Rezanov by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Godfrey was indifferent whether he slept in a bed or in the telega, which, when the straw was fresh shaken up and a couple of rugs laid upon it, was by no means uncomfortable.
From Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia by Walter Paget
Although the journey was not continued by night the telega was still Godfrey's constant place of abode.
From Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia by Walter Paget
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