Turky

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Turky

  1. Obsolete form of Turkey.; A country in the Middle East
    • 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 235:
      Suppose a Montesquieu, a Buffon, a Diderot, a Duclos, a d'Alembert, a Condillac, or men of that stamp, engaged in avoyage for the instruction of their countrymen, observing and describing with all that attention and exactness they are masters of, Turky, Egypt, Barbary, the Empire of Morocco, Guinea, the Land of the Caffres, the interior parts and eastern shores of Africa, Malabar, the Mogul's Country, the Banks of the Ganges, the Kingdoms of Siam, Pegu and Ava, China, Tartary, and above all Japan;