kazachok

kazachok
/keuh zah chawk"/, n., pl. kazachki /-zahch kee"/.
a lively, Slavic folk dance for a solo male dancer, marked esp. by the prisiadka. Also called kazatsky, kazatske.
[1925-30; < Russ kazachók or Ukrainian kozachók, equiv. to kazák, kozák COSSACK + -ok dim. suffix]

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