In response to Stan: according to my dictionary (the Random
House Webster), Bohemian does mean "a Gypsy.
-- adj." (entry # 4). Had my English vocabulary been
richer, I wouldn't have used the term "synonym."
Btw., Ignat/giant + a = gitana;
Ignat + illa = gitanilla (illa - Lat.,
"that;" cf. Dies irae, dies illa!)
The name Ignat comes from ignis ("fire"). One
remembers St. Ignatius of Loyola and Spanish autosdafé. Speaking
of Dostoevsky's rhymester, Khodasevich wrote an article "The Poetry of
Ignat Lebyadkin" (1931).
best,
Alexey Sklyarenko
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