Ucraine

See also: ucraine and Úcráine

English

Proper noun

Ucraine

1. (rare) Archaic spelling of Ukraine.
   • 1793 May 8, Dr Pallas, “Notices of the white marmot”, in The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer […], volume 15, page 39:

     I had the black variety some years ago, which is not so scarce, and chiefly found in the Ucraine but this white marmot, it is said came from Siberia.

   • 1801 August, Pan Taylorski, “Method of taking the Wild Horses, on the extensive plains of Moldavia, Wallachia, and the Novelle Servia”, in The Sporting Magazine, volume 18, page 228:

     On crossing the river, they leave the Turkish dominions, and arrive at a small town, called Zwanice, and enter that of the Polish Ucraine, and here they pay a small duty for each horse.

   • 1853, George Stanley Faber, The Predicted Downfall of the Turkish Power: The Preparation for the Return of the Ten Tribes, page 31:

     The Treaty of Carlowicz, in the year 1699, deprived the Sultan of all sway in Hungary and Transylvania, leaving to him only the town of Temeswar: and, furthermore, it despoiled him of Azof, and the Ucraine, and Podolia, and Dalmatia.