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
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
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
Tell me rather why you sleep in the telega.
From The Precipice by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
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
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