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Tamburlaine

noun
1.
Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405).  Synonyms: Tamerlane, Timur, Timur Lenk.






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"Tamburlaine" Quotes from Famous Books



... footnotes refer back to notes to "The First Part Of Tamburlaine the Great." These references have been copied and inserted into the notes ...
— Tamburlaine the Great, Part II. • Christopher Marlowe

... with the men of the Restoration. The creative impulse of a century had at length spent its force. For the first time since Wyatt and Surrey, England deserted the great themes of literature, the heroic passions of Tamburlaine and Faustus, of Lear and Othello, for the trivial round of social portraiture and didactic discourse; for Essays on Satire and on Translated Verse, for the Tea-Table of the Spectator, for dreary exercises on the Pleasures ...
— English literary criticism • Various



Words linked to "Tamburlaine" :   swayer, ruler



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