English

Proper noun

Muscovy between 1390 and 1530

Muscovy

1. The Russian territory around and ruled from Moscow by grand princes until it became the nucleus of a united Russia, which its dynasty ruled first as czars (kings) from Moscow, later as emperors from Saint Petersburg

Derived terms

• Muscovian

Translations

Related terms

• Moscow, Moskva, Muscovite

See also

• Muscovy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Noun

muscovy ‎(plural muscovies)

1. Muscovy duck
   • 1906, A. C. Laut, Pathfinders of the West:

     The clerks have rejected it as much as they liked; I am told that they admitted somewhere about six thousands of muscovy; during our administration there were 28 or 30 thousands received, which is a large difference without taking into account other qualities, and all this does not give the French much trouble, and at the most for the year we were not informed.