White Russian
Adjective
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Adjective
White Russian (not comparable)
- Of or relating to Russians with tsarist sympathies in the period directly following the 1917 Revolution.
- 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society 2010, page 340:
- The overseer of the clinic was a White Russian woman, a nun, formerly of the Russian Orthodox community in Jerusalem, but a good-hearted woman. In these cases, we should not be too scrupulous politically, said the priest.
- 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society 2010, page 340:
- (obsolete) Of or relating to Belarus, literally "White Russia," or its language.
- Belarusan (academic)
- Belarusian (preferred)
- Belorussian (deprecated)
- Bielorussian (official before 1991)
- Byelorussian (deprecated)
- French: russe blanc
- French: blanc-russien
White Russian
- A cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, vodka, and milk.
- (history) a White Guardist, a Russian who supported the tsar in the 1917 Revolution and the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), and afterward. (Russian history)
- (obsolete) A Belarusian person.
- (obsolete, uncountable) The Belarusian language.
person of Belarusian nationality
- Belarusan (academic)
- Belarusian (preferred)
- Belorussian (deprecated)
- Bielorussian (official before 1991)
- Byelorussian (deprecated)
- French: Russe Blanc
- German: Weißer Russe, White Russian
- Portuguese: russo branco
- Russian: Бе́лый ру́сский
- Spanish: ruso blanco
- Russian: бе́лый
- French: Blanc-Russien, Blanche-Russienne
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