Cossack vs Bashlyk - What's the difference?
cossack | bashlyk |
A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Russian tsarist Empire (where they constituted a legendary military caste) and the Soviet Union, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.
A member of a military unit (typically cavalry, originally recruited exclusively from the above)
A protective cone-shaped hood with lappets for wrapping around the neck, used especially by Turks and Cossacks.
* 1962 , Henri Troyat, Daily Life in Russia Under the Last Tsar , page 123
* 1968 , Jacob Neusner, A History of the Jews in Babylonia , page 102
* 1983 , E. Yarshater, The Cambridge History of Iran , volume 3(1), page 303
* 2007 , Ferdinand Ossendowski, Beasts, Men and Gods , page 89
As nouns the difference between cossack and bashlyk
is that cossack is (cossack) while bashlyk is a protective cone-shaped hood with lappets for wrapping around the neck, used especially by turks and cossacks.cossack
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* cossackNoun
(wikipedia Cossack) (en noun)Derived terms
* cossack green * cossack hatAnagrams
* English proper nounsbashlyk
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(en noun)- In winter the troops wore the grey greatcoat and the bashlyk , a sort of hood protecting the neck and ears.
- The description of Jews wearing very high hats ("as tall as themselves" or "an amah'' high") calls to mind the tall pointed cap, or hood ''bashlyk''''' brought by the Iranians from the Siberian steppes. The '''''bashlyk occurs with great frequency among the Medean and Persian tribes.
- The obverse bust wears a completely new style of bashlyk , resembling the Macedonian kausia , but with a flap at the back and an eagle on top.
- Then one of the strangers mounted the throne, where he took off his bashlyk or cap-like head covering. All of the Lamas fell to their knees as they recognized the man who had been long ago described in the sacred bulls of Dalai Lama, Tashi Lama and Bogdo Khan.