Tartary

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)təɹi

Proper noun

Tartary

(archaic) The Eurasian Steppe.
Obsolete form of Tartarus.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 102:
  An huge great Dragon horrible in ſight,
  Bred in the loathly lakes of Tartary

Derived terms

Crim Tartary, Krim Tartary
Kuban Tartary
Little Tartary

References

Tartary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Rattray

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