Duma
[du:mɒ]
Definition
(noun.) a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics in the former USSR.
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Examples
- These interesting phases of development of the old chemistry have been followed by the new theory of substitution, by Dumas and others. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We saw the damp, dismal cells in which two of Dumas' heroes passed their confinement--heroes of Monte Cristo. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At Paris he came in contact with the lead ers of the scientific world--Claude Bernard, Balard, Dumas, Biot. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Davy, Scheele, Dumas, Balard, Liebig, W?hler, and a number of other distinguished ch emists, were apothecaries' apprentices. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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