Turkeydom en · NOUN
Etymology
Turkey + -dom
Meanings
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(archaic, uncountable) The realm or sphere of the Turks.
He wears a beard, and he likes his women to be slaves. What man doesn’t? What man would be henpecked, I say? We will cut off all the heads in Christendom or Turkeydom rather than that.
1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter LIV, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:[…] those brilliant alliances which made the young ladies of Circassia the envy of Turkeydom.
1856, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 80, page 48: