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baggy loose trousers akin to harem pants......sharivariii was what the riders of the step wore....tartars, kalmyks, ukraininas kazakhs etc....
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From: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@ATT.NET>
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Sent: Fri, Apr 19, 2013 5:20 pm
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] swoony-baloony
Baloney of course is derived from the Italian city, Balogna. Balloon, on the other hand, is named after the 17th century ballerino, Ballon.
Carolyn
The first balloon was flown in 1783, causing panic through the British isles. But what are sharovars?
From: Alexey Sklyarenko <skylark1970@MAIL.RU>
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Sent: Fri, April 19, 2013 11:38:22 AM
Subject: [NABOKV-L] swoony-baloony
He [Van] remembered with a pang of pleasure the indulgent skirt Ada had been wearing then, so swoony-baloony as the Chose young things said, and he regretted (smiling) that Lucette had those chaste shorts on today, and Ada, husked-corn (laughing) trousers. (Ada, 1.39)
Ballonnye rukava (the balloon sleeves) of a long Caucasus shirt are mentioned in Ilf and Petrov's Zolotoy telyonok ("The Little Golden Calf", Chapter Three "Your gas - our ideas"):
Завидя какого-нибудь совслужа в длинной кавказской рубашке с баллонными рукавами, он подъезжал к нему сзади и с горьким смехом кричал:
— Мошенники! А вот я вас сейчас под показательный подведу! Под сто девятую статью!
Catching sight of some civil servant in a long Caucasus shirt with balloon sleeves, he [Adam Kozlevich] would ride up from behind and yell at him, laughing bitterly: "Scoundrels! I’m going to take you right over to the show court!"
rukav = kurva (rukav - sleeve; kurva - whore)
At an invisible sign of Dionysian origin, they all [merry young gardeners wearing for some reason the garb of Georgian tribesmen and servant girls in sharovars] plunged into the violent dance called kurva or 'ribbon boule' in the hilarious program whose howlers almost caused Veen (tingling, and light-loined, and with Prince N.'s rose-red banknote in his pocket) to fall from his seat. (1.2)
Alexey Sklyarenko
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-----Original Message-----
From: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@ATT.NET>
To: NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Fri, Apr 19, 2013 5:20 pm
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] swoony-baloony
Baloney of course is derived from the Italian city, Balogna. Balloon, on the other hand, is named after the 17th century ballerino, Ballon.
Carolyn
The first balloon was flown in 1783, causing panic through the British isles. But what are sharovars?
From: Alexey Sklyarenko <skylark1970@MAIL.RU>
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Fri, April 19, 2013 11:38:22 AM
Subject: [NABOKV-L] swoony-baloony
He [Van] remembered with a pang of pleasure the indulgent skirt Ada had been wearing then, so swoony-baloony as the Chose young things said, and he regretted (smiling) that Lucette had those chaste shorts on today, and Ada, husked-corn (laughing) trousers. (Ada, 1.39)
Ballonnye rukava (the balloon sleeves) of a long Caucasus shirt are mentioned in Ilf and Petrov's Zolotoy telyonok ("The Little Golden Calf", Chapter Three "Your gas - our ideas"):
Завидя какого-нибудь совслужа в длинной кавказской рубашке с баллонными рукавами, он подъезжал к нему сзади и с горьким смехом кричал:
— Мошенники! А вот я вас сейчас под показательный подведу! Под сто девятую статью!
Catching sight of some civil servant in a long Caucasus shirt with balloon sleeves, he [Adam Kozlevich] would ride up from behind and yell at him, laughing bitterly: "Scoundrels! I’m going to take you right over to the show court!"
rukav = kurva (rukav - sleeve; kurva - whore)
At an invisible sign of Dionysian origin, they all [merry young gardeners wearing for some reason the garb of Georgian tribesmen and servant girls in sharovars] plunged into the violent dance called kurva or 'ribbon boule' in the hilarious program whose howlers almost caused Veen (tingling, and light-loined, and with Prince N.'s rose-red banknote in his pocket) to fall from his seat. (1.2)
Alexey Sklyarenko
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