Polovtsy
/pə(ʊ)ˈlɒvtsi/ /ˈpɒləvtsi/noun
Treated as plural. A nomadic Turkic people who inhabited the central Eurasian steppe between the 11th and 13th centuries.
Origin
Mid 18th century. From Russian polovcy, plural of polovec, perhaps from polovyj yellowish-white, pale + -ec, suffix forming nouns.
- colour correction
- colour cup
- colour-defective
- colour-de-roy
- colour diagram
- colour difference
- colour disc
- colour discrimination
- colour doctor
- colour duster
- colour dusting
- coloured
- coloured audition
- coloured clothes
- coloured hearing
- coloured pencil
- colour emphasis
- colourer
- colour expanse
- colour fast
- colour fastness
- colourfield
- colour-field painting
- colour film
- colour filter