[a. F. Tartarie, ad. med.L. Tartaria, land of the Tartars: associated with TARTARUS: hence sense 2.]

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  1.  The country of the Tartars: see TARTAR sb.2

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c. 1369.  Chaucer, Dethe Blaunche, 1025. Ne sende men … into Tartarye … ne in-to Turkye.

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1500–20.  Dunbar, Poems, xxxiii. 5. Me thocht a Turk of Tartary Come throw the boundis of Barbary.

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1719.  De Foe, Crusoe (1858), 575. A part of the Great Karakathy, or Grand Tartary.

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1886.  Kington Oliphant, New English, I. 536. From Tartary came hordas.

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  † b.  = TARTAR sb.3

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c. 1400.  Maundev. (1839), xxiii. 247. Þei ben cloþed with precious cloþes of Tartarye & of cloþes of gold.

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  † 2.  Tartarus, as a region. Obs.

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c. 1588.  Spenser, Virg. Gnat, 543. Lastly the squalid lakes of Tartarie, And griesly Feends of hell him terrifie.

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1591.  Troub. Raigne K. John (1611), 59. Let the blacke tormentors of deep Tartary Vpbraide them with this damned enterprise.

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c. 1620.  T. Robinson, Mary Magd., 735. Amonge ye blacker sonnes of Tartary, Seu’n hideous fiery sprights shee euocates.

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