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Kalmuck   Listen
noun
Kalmuck  n.  
1.
pl. (Ethnol.) See Calmucks.
2.
A kind of shaggy cloth, resembling bearskin.
3.
A coarse, dyed, cotton cloth, made in Prussia.





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"Kalmuck" Quotes from Famous Books



... Kanghi had added to his empire, they taking its central city of Lhassa, and carrying to the steppes a vast wealth in spoil. Eventually they were subjected to Chinese rule, but before this took place an event of much interest occurred. The Tourguts, an adjoining Kalmuck tribe, were so imperilled by the enmity of the Eleuths that they took the important resolution of migrating to Russia, marching across the Kirghiz steppes and becoming faithful subjects of the czar, who gave them a new abiding-place on ...
— Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris
... figure. The Huns were uncivilizable savages, who might harry a continent, but neither under Attila, nor Genghis, nor Timour, could ever found an organized kingdom. This terrific and brutal little Kalmuck, with his bead-like eyes, this skin-clad devourer of raw flesh, delighted to lay waste whole empires with fire and sword, and to terrify the world. In 434 he became king of the Huns with his brother Bleda. In 445 Bleda died, possibly by murder; and in 445 Attila, now sole king of the Huns, ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 • Various


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