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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On the third day the servant managed to hire a telega from a superior farmer and they started immediately, the heavy luggage having been consigned to a merchant vessel at Yakutsk.
From Rezanov by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Rezanov, in a fever which he attributed to rage, dismissed the telega at a village and awaited the coming of Jon, who followed on horseback with the personal luggage.
From Rezanov by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
As it came nearer, I perceived a telega, a country cart, with a horse harnessed to it.
From Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar by Landells, R. T.
Rezanov stood the telega exactly half a day.
From Rezanov by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
A little further off stood some cars and a big telega.
From The Precipice by Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich
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