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Proper noun
Ucraine
- (rare) Archaic spelling of Ukraine.
1793 May 8, Dr Pallas, “Notices of the white marmot”, in The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer , volume 15, page 39:I had the black variety some years ago, which is not so scarce, and chiefly found in the Ucraine but this white marmot, it is said came from Siberia.
1801 August, Pan Taylorski, “Method of taking the Wild Horses, on the extensive plains of Moldavia, Wallachia, and the Novelle Servia”, in The Sporting Magazine, volume 18, page 228:On crossing the river, they leave the Turkish dominions, and arrive at a small town, called Zwanice, and enter that of the Polish Ucraine, and here they pay a small duty for each horse.
1853, George Stanley Faber, The Predicted Downfall of the Turkish Power: The Preparation for the Return of the Ten Tribes, page 31:The Treaty of Carlowicz, in the year 1699, deprived the Sultan of all sway in Hungary and Transylvania, leaving to him only the town of Temeswar: and, furthermore, it despoiled him of Azof, and the Ucraine, and Podolia, and Dalmatia.