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What is a Cossack?

What is a Cossack? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, formed in part of runaways from the neighbouring countries, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian tsarist Empire (where they constituted a legendary military caste), particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.
  2. A member of a military unit (typically cavalry, originally recruited exclusively from the above)
  3. (obsolete) A Ukrainian.
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In fact, the Cossack regards the Russian peasant as a foreign, outlandish, despicable creature.
The second was the Cossack period, lasting from the middle of the seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth century.
I had no thermals, but cut a dash with pyjama bottoms under my jeans and a borrowed Cossack hat.
Indeed, it has been wrestled over so often by the Cossack and the Turk that little of the old city remains.
A Cossack, rather than the cavalry, appeared on the horizon to save the day.
The hopak was first danced by the Cossack of the Zaporhizian Sich in the sixteenth century and spread to the rest of Ukraine.

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