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Duma   /dˈumə/   Listen
Duma

noun
1.
A legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics in the former USSR.





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"Duma" Quotes from Famous Books



... have been indicted for less than that. I've seen Tupper, too; someone pointed him out goin' in on the express only the other mornin'. Looks like a returned Nihilist who'd been nominated in one of the back wards of Petrograd to run for the Duma on a free-vodka platform. He's got wiry whiskers that he must trim with a pair of tin-shears, tufts in his ears, and the general build of a performin' chimpanzee. Oh, he's a rare ...
— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford


Words linked to "Duma" :   legislative body, law-makers, legislature, general assembly, legislative assembly


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