Bo*yar" (?), Bo*yard" (?), n. [Russ. boiárin'.]
A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.
⇒ English writers sometimes call Russian landed proprietors boyars.
© Webster 1913.
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