voisko
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Russian войско (vojsko, “host, army”).
Noun
[edit]voisko (plural voiskos)
- (now historical) A self-governing administrative community of Cossacks in the Russian Empire.
- 1987, Robert H. McNeal, Tsar And Cossack 1855-1914, page 21:
- n the latter two cases, the problem of finding people to fill out the voiskos was solved partly by the transfer of Cossacks from the Don, Orenburg and Zabaikal voiskos.
- 1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2013, page 66:
- The voiskos demanded more and more concessions – both economic and political – as the price of their military service.