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Definition of Tartars
1. tartar [n] - See also: tartar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tartars
Literary usage of Tartars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"But they on the contrary side thinking that the tartars durst not come nigh them,
gave the assault, and when they came at the cloud, they could not proceed ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"... and the curious observation of the pastoral life of the Scythians* or tartars'
will illustrate the latent cause of these destructive emigrations. ..."
3. The Life of John Ledyard, the American Traveller: Comprising Selections from by Jared Sparks (1829)
"The love of freedom common to all the tartars.—Their dwellings.— Intermarriages
between the Russians and tartars.—In what degree the color of descendants is ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1901)
"tion of the pastoral life of the Scythians,4 or tartars,5 will illustrate the
... In every age, the Scythians and tartars have been renowned for their ..."
5. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Relations touching the tartars, taken out of the Historie of R. Wendover*, ...
Nno 1239. the tartars, inhumane Nations, which had made great slaughters, ..."
6. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Relations touching the tartars, taken out of the 1240. Historie of R. Wendover*,
and Mat. Paris : *Hee was with certayne Epistles of the same subject. ..."
7. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Relations touching the tartars, taken out of the Historie of R. Wendover*, and Mat.
Paris : with certayne Epistles of the same subject. ..."
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