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Don horse
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Definition:a Russian horse which was bred specifically for the steppes region. They are considered to be very strong, tough horses.
image: By Unknown - Народная энциклопедия (нач. 20 в.), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22108661
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The Don horse he was riding was one he had bought from a Cossack during the campaign, and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his head.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 03 (Book Three)
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staring at the side-horse, that had been his saddle-horse, past his prime now, but a spirited beast from the Don, he began to see what had happened to him in quite a different light.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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