Cos|sack

Cos|sack
Cos|sack «KOS ak, -uhk», noun.
1. one of a Slavic people living on the steppes in southwestern Russia, noted as horsemen and cavalrymen, especially in czarist Russia.
2. a winter-hardy variety of alfalfa that does not resist wilt.
[< Russian kazak < Turkic, free man]

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