circassian

Of or pertaining to Circassia or Circassians.

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.

A native or inhabitant of Circassia (historical) (nowadays shared by Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia), including the Adyghes and Ubykhs.

Alternative form of Circassienne (“kind of light cashmere”).

A North Caucasian language group spoken in Circassia in North West Caucasus Russia.

The Adyghe, Kabardian, Ubykh languages.