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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



... nations of Christendom, and from them (chiefly ourselves) has become the Transatlantic face, is, past all disputing, the finest type of the human countenance divine on this planet. And most other nations, Asiatic or African, have hitherto put up with this insult; except, indeed, the Kalmuck Tartars, who are highly indignant at our European vanity in this matter; and some of them, says Bergmann, the German traveller, absolutely howl with rage, whilst others only laugh hysterically, at any man's having the insanity to prefer the Grecian features to the Kalmuck. ...
— Theological Essays and Other Papers v1 • Thomas de Quincey
... in his flat, swarthy features, deep-set, fierce, rolling black eyes, and stunted 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 ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 • Various


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