Strelitz

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian стреле́ц (streléc, shooter, archer).

Noun

Strelitz (plural Strelitzes or Strelitzi or Strelitz)

  1. (historical) A soldier of the ancient Muscovite guard or Russian standing army.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Strelitz”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)