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What does uhlan mean?

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Noun
  1. (historical) A lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit of the Polish, Prussian/German, Austrian, and Russian armies.
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Both uhlan and czapska derive from Turkish and clearly associate the Polish lancers with origins in Turkey.
In the middle of the reading, the Uhlan interrupted Denisov.
It was the exclamation of the uhlan who had stopped them in the afternoon.
He bowed gravely to the uhlan lieutenant, who saluted stiffly.
He felt sure that he could have outridden the uhlan in the end.
They're just about ready for anything, from a uhlan patrol to an army corps.

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