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Word entry · 6 letters

troika

Best crossword clue

"Three-horse team"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈtɹɔɪ.kə/Part of speech nounSorted aikortStarts with TEnds with A1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a Russian carriage pulled by three horses abreast

Word origin

From Russian тро́йка (trójka, “a group of three”).

Used in a sentence

  • When Gogol wrote his great passage on the troika speeding across the steppes, he likened it to Russia itself, advancing across the earth.
  • Travelling part of the way by rail and the remainder by troika, he reached Orenburg shortly before Christmas.
  • The investigator suspected the poor dead bastards were just a vodka troika that had cheerily frozen to death.

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