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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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 R. T. Landells
He stopped to watch us as we plunged into the flood, with our Russian telega for a ferry-boat.
From Across Asia on a Bicycle by Thomas Gaskell Allen
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 Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
He seated himself in his telega, in which lay two trunks, one containing his pistols, the other his effects.
From Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Tell me rather why you sleep in the telega.
From The Precipice by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
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