Crossword clues for circassian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circassian \Cir*cas"sian\, a. Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Circassia.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to Circassia or Circassians n. A native or inhabitant of Circassia (''historical'') (nowadays shared by Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia) including Adyghes, Ubykhs, Abkhazs. n. 1 A North Caucasian language group spoken in Circassia in North West Caucasus Russia. 2 Sometimes, used for Adyghe, Kabardian, Ubykh and even Abkhazian languages
Wikipedia
The term Circassian may refer to:
- Pertaining to Circassia, a formerly independent country located in present-day European Russia
- Circassian coast, on the Black Sea
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Circassians, also known as Adyghe people
- Circassian beauties, an idealized image of Circassian women
- Circassian Majlis, a political and resistance council between the leaders of three coastal Adyghe tribes in 1860
- Circassian language, a Nortwest Caucasian language
- Khanjali, a Circassian dagger
- Shashka, a Circassian sword
Usage examples of "circassian".
Among them may be noticed the Armenians, Georgians, Circassians, Abkhasians, Lesghians, Osetintzi, Chechentzi, Kistentzi, Toushi, and others.
After a long and victorious march, the new Avars arrived at the foot of Mount Caucasus, in the country of the Alani and Circassians, where they first heard of the splendor and weakness of the Roman empire.
Also, the freedom of the six Circassian slaves whom you house now at Beni Hassan, ready to bring to your palace.
McGowan, for whom I was acquiring a profound affection, beamed on us, and produced a couple of bottles of blackstrap to drink the health of the Colossal Circassian Circus.
There are those who say the love of an Indian girl, once given, surpasses that of her Circassian sister, and Bridger now was learning new stories of the Bugologist with every day of his progress in Apache lore.
As usual, they were a mix of all races, though with a distinct Asian and African cast, here: Ethiops dark as night and brawny Nubians even darker, and fiat-faced fair-skinned Circassians and Avars and other sinewy northern folk, and some who might have been Persians or Indians, and even a sullen yellow-haired man who could have been a Briton or Teuton.
Rue Royale, showed him proud, careful mamas clothed as classical goddesses or Circassian maids, and watchful papas in the incongruous garb of pirates, lions, and clowns, escorting gorgeously costumed little boys and girls to the carriages that awaited them, drawn up just the other side of the gurgling gutters and tying up traffic for streets.
Tartars of Kalmuck, or of the Circassian hordes, and that there must be more of them upon the great desert, though he never heard that any of them were seen so far north before.
There were two Lesghians, a Circassian, and three Tartars from Daghestan.
Here were slim, lethal Persians, dangerous-eyed Turks in mail shirts, lean Arabs, tall ragged Kurds, Lurs and Armenians in sweaty sheepskins, fiercely mustached Circassians, even a few Georgians, with hawk-faces and devilish tempers.
Ouled Nail floated like a syren, promising ecstasies unknown even in Baghdad, where the pale Circassian lifts her lustrous eyes, in which the palms were heavy with dates of solid gold, and the streams were gliding silver.
Slavs, mostly: stockier than the Circassian natives, flatter-faced and more often blond, in peasant blouses or the remnants of Soviet uniform.
The board was pieced from blocks of circassian walnut and birdseye maple with a border of inlaid pearl and the chessmen were of carved ivorv and black horn.
The same custom prevails among the Circassians and the Samoyeds of Siberia.
You could never trust ragheads—Afghans or Circassians or Turks or whatever.