Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Cossack dance, or the music for it.
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Examples
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The whole costume was set off by hose _à la cosaque_, which appeared to amplify downwards, bulged over the boots, and were slit up in front so as to allow them to be stuffed therein.
A Hungarian Nabob M��r J��kai 1864
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The French bourgeoisie had long since solved Napoleon's dilemma: "Dans cinquante ans l'Europe sera republicaine ou cosaque."
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1850
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It found the solution in the "republique cosaque."
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1850
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_ "Dans Petat actuel des choses, avant dix ans_, toute l'Europe peut etre cosaque, ou toute en republique."
The Duel Between France and Germany Charles Sumner 1842
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