Synonyms:
Cheremis, Cheremiss, Mari
Meaning: the Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis
Synonyms:
Cheremis, Cheremiss, Mari
Meaning: a member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia
Usage examples
He looked, with his careful precision of dress, as if he were the object of cherishing care on the part of elderly unmarried sisters, but I knew Mari' Harris to be a very common-place, inelegant person, who would have no such standards; it was plain that the captain was his own attentive valet.