Duma

See also: duma, dumā, and d'uma

English

Proper noun

Duma (plural Dumas)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of duma (Russian legislative assembly)
    • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 98:
      Barricades were raised, Dumas were convened and dissolved, emergency laws were enacted, mystics sought escape routes to the beyond—and meanwhile this little group of captains and colonels, nicknamed the “Young Turks,” developed their ideas, read the works of German generals, and gathered strength.

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