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Answer for the clue "Black Sea retreat ", 5 letters:
dacha

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Word definitions for dacha in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Russian dacha , originally "gift," from Slavic *datja , from PIE *do- "to give" (see donation ).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. Russian country house

Usage examples of dacha.

A little flame sprang up revealing a pile of logs arranged for burning, and beyond it the tall form of Dacha wearing a strange headdress and white, priestlike robes, different from those in which he had been clad at the feast.

The Skoda pulled up outside the dacha and Stanski, Anna and frena climbed out.

And each time he and Irena and he met six times a year, more if possible, he had to take particular care and timing to travel to the dacha.

He had already explained about Irena, but the atmosphere in the car as they drove to the dacha had been charged and anxious, as if they each expected a roadblock or a police siren at any moment, and they had hardly spoken.

He wondered for a moment whether he was being led into a trap - then he sensed that the meeting-place was to be one of the many wooden dachas built in the Arkhangelskoe district -summer and week-end homes for prominent members of the Party and the bureaucracy.

SID had investigated, in its time, a number of peculiar reports concerning social and personal behaviour in dachas like the ones dotted through the woods.

He had been found, face-down in the slush, by a senior member of the Central Committee Secretariat, who was cohabiting in his dacha with a woman not his wife.

Doctorat-nauk (emeritus) Rosaleen Artzybachova was discontentedly trying to make the time pass with chess-by-fax games against a variety of opponents from her boring retirement dacha outside of Kiev.

All she need do was reach out and pick up the snapshot of Oreanda Maluta, burnt to a crisp in a conflagration of mysterious origin that ravaged the first dacha built on this parcel of land.

The dacha with the sea-blue tile roof was just outside Yalta, on the Crimean peninsula that jutted, squarish, tailed, south into the Black Sea.

They weren't popped for stealing diesel fuel or building dachas with pilfered lumber.

Iamskoy wore the same wolf-trimmed coat and boots as when Arkady had visited the dacha before, as well as a lamb's wool cap on his bare skull and leather gloves that he pulled on while he talked.

By then he'll be empty and she'll vanish into a new life and that danger will be gone forever and I'll go to my dacha where the Zergeyev hellcat'll be waiting and we'll fight, she calling me every obscenity until I lose my temper and tear her clothes off, maybe use the whip again and she'll fight back and fight back until I fight into her and explode, explode taking her with me sometimes, Prestos how I wish it was every time.

But other men, higher up in the hierarchy, decided who the workers and peasant were, and they themselves lived in ornate dachas and multiroom flats, and had automobiles and drivers… and privileges.

You're not the only person who can pick holes in an expense account, and I'm sure your colleagues will be very interested to know where you got the money to buy that big dacha outside Sevastopol.