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noun
The members of one of the two principal movements (along with the Bezpopovtsy) of the Old Believers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-normally
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History
Borrowed from Russian поповцы (popovcy, “the priested ones”), the followers of the Popovshchina movement.
