Definitions | dessiatina |
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- A Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares.
- 1973: Clouds, some in very clear profile, black and jagged, sail in armadas towards the Asian arctic, above the sweeping dessiatinas of grasses " Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Etymology: From Russian ÑÑÑ "tenth, tithe".
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