Definition of Cosack
Cos"sack (k?s"s?k), n. [Russ.
kozak', kazak': cf. Turk. kazāk.]
One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen,
inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing
valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of
Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal
divisions.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A person of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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