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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Ethnol.) One of the great races of man, including the greater part of the inhabitants of China, Japan, and the interior of Asia, with branches in Northern Europe and other parts of the world. By some American Indians are considered a branch of the Mongols. In a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of Mongolia and adjacent countries, including the Burats and the Kalmuks.
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- proper noun Plural form of
Mongol .
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Examples
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The B-word, typically associated with the invading Mongols, is largely eschewed by the Metropolitan in both its exhibition and its catalogue -- with one notable exception, discussed later.
Lee Rosenbaum: Barbarians Tamed: The Met's Timid "Khubilai Khan" Exhibition Lee Rosenbaum 2010
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The B-word, typically associated with the invading Mongols, is largely eschewed by the Metropolitan in both its exhibition and its catalogue -- with one notable exception, discussed later.
Lee Rosenbaum: Barbarians Tamed: The Met's Timid "Khubilai Khan" Exhibition Lee Rosenbaum 2010
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The B-word, typically associated with the invading Mongols, is largely eschewed by the Metropolitan in both its exhibition and its catalogue -- with one notable exception, discussed later.
Lee Rosenbaum: Barbarians Tamed: The Met's Timid "Khubilai Khan" Exhibition Lee Rosenbaum 2010
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The B-word, typically associated with the invading Mongols, is largely eschewed by the Metropolitan in both its exhibition and its catalogue -- with one notable exception, discussed later.
Lee Rosenbaum: Barbarians Tamed: The Met's Timid "Khubilai Khan" Exhibition Lee Rosenbaum 2010
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In strong contrast to the treatment of the aged by the Ts'aidam Mongols is the filial piety of the Chinese, which is occasionally carried to excess, the old people being allowed the role of tyrant, sometimes beating their grown-up sons and daughters severely with no resentment or retaliation from the latter.
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The only thing I'd add is that the Mongols were historically outstanding in terms of their brutality, putting entire towns they'd conquered to the sword.
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The principal incentive for a local Christian lord to capitulate to the Mongols was the certain knowledge that he and all his followers would be put to the sword if he refused.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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The Mongols are a largely Latino motorcycle gang, with 64 members recently arrested on racketeering charges.
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The Mongols were the original genocidal maniacs, but again not against their own people and only till they attained control.
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But in terms of the world, the Mongols are the greatest racists and mass-murderers NOT the Germans.
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