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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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 Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich
His wounds, dressed in Cossack fashion by the old inspector of weights and measures, opened; fever attacked him, and that night he lay half senseless in a Cossack telega, unconscious of God's world.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
The telega in which we were seated—a four-wheeled skeleton cart—did not submit to the ill-treatment so silently.
From Russia by Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir
We found our britchka waiting for us; our officer and the dragoman got into a telega or post chariot, and the bells began their merry jingling.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
Zakhar, who had made it easy for Skshetuski to see the prisoners, comforted him while returning to the telega.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
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