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Cossack Definition


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Cossack
noun
    1. formerly
      Any member of the semi-independent communities of fugitive peasants who inhabited the steppelands of S Russia and the Ukraine and who formed an elite group of cavalrymen.
adj
    1. Belonging or relating to this people.
Etymology: 16c: ultimately from Turkic quzzaq adventurer or guerrilla.



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