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Cossack

noun

a member of any of several groups of peasants, chiefly of Russian and Polish descent, that lived in autonomous communal settlements, esp. in the Ukraine, until the late 19th cent: in return for special privileges, they served in the cavalry under the Czars

adjective

of or characteristic of the Cossacks or their culture

See Cossack in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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