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Tartarian

[ tahr-tair-ee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a Tartar or the Tartars, the Mongolian and Turkish tribes who overran Asia and much of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.


Tartarian

/ tɑːˈtɛərɪən /

adjective

  1. a variant spelling of Tatarian See Tatarian
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Tartarian1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; Tartar, -ian
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Example Sentences

This English army of traders in their march ravaged worse than a Tartarian conqueror.

The one known as Lonicera bella alba does not differ very much from the common white form of the Tartarian honeysuckle.

Mr. Moyer: It occurs to me that the Tartarian honeysuckle is about as good as any thing you can plant for birds.

That they separated themselves early, very early, from the greater part of the Turko-Tartarian nations, admits of no question.

If it is of the Norman age, then the pointed style arose at once from a transfusion of Arabian or Tartarian architecture.

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