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Definition of Muscovy
1. Noun. A Russian principality in the 13th to 16th centuries; Moscow was the capital.
Definition of Muscovy
1. Proper noun. The Russian territory around and ruled from Moscow by grand princes until it became the nucleus of a united Russia, which its dynasty ruled first as czars (kings) from Moscow, later as emperors from Saint Petersburg ¹
2. Noun. Muscovy duck ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muscovy
Literary usage of Muscovy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Agriculturist (1847)
"THE French naturalists assert that the muscovy duck is a distinct species, ...
The muscovy duck, it appears, is only found in a wild state in South America. ..."
2. Persian Letters by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, John Davidson, Edouard de Beaumont (1892)
"They have subdued muscovy. Under the name of Turks, they have made immense
conquests in Europe, Asia, and Africa; and they are the dominant power in these ..."
3. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, from the Earliest Times Until the by Simon Dubnow (1916)
"THE ANTI-JEWISH ATTITUDE OF muscovy DUBING THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
The Empire of muscovy, shut oS from Western Europe by a Chinese—or, ..."
4. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"But meanwhile King James muscovy had interfered with an order forbid- Company
ding him to leave the country. The foreigners were not to be allowed to have ..."
5. The White Messenger, and Other War Poems by Edith Matilda Thomas (1915)
""In muscovy no voice of bird Through all the Winter Year is heard.— In muscovy
when comes the hour Of winter's loosed and broken power, Upon the instant, ..."
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