Definition of "Circassian"

Circassian

/səˈkæsi.ən/

adjective
comparative more Circassian, superlative most Circassian
1. Of or pertaining to Circassia or Circassians.
  Quotations
  But in the garden was life in all its glad and bright hues: the early roses and the late violets opened their urns, exhaling in perfume the drops they caught, till every breath was pleasure; the laburnums, those prodigals of fleeting wealth, were covered with gold; and the Persian lilacs waved graceful as the Circassian maidens, to whom they are so often compared in eastern song.
  1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], pages 285–286
noun
plural Circassians
1. (historical) (nowadays shared by Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia), including the Adyghes and Ubykhs.
2. Alternative form of Circassienne (“kind of light cashmere”)
proper noun
1. A North Caucasian language group spoken in Circassia in North West Caucasus Russia.
2. The Adyghe, Kabardian, Ubykh languages.