in some fertile parts of Estoty the izba
windows of large peasant families in which up to a dozen people of different
size and sex slept on one blin-like mattress were ordered to be
kept uncurtained at night for the convenience of petrol-torch-flashing patrols -
'Peeping Pats,' as the anti-Irish tabloids called them (Ada,
1.21)
In Russian izba the bedroom where many people
slept was called povalusha. Povalusha and vpovalku
(side by side, in prone position) are related words. A character in VN's
story/unfinished novel Solus Rex, the depraved Prince Adulf
enjoyed, among other forms of sex, lyubov' vpovalku (group
fornication).
Blin is a kind of pancake, round as the sun. Just as
blind has Russian blin in it, solus (solitary)
has its own sol (sun).
Solus + blind = sol + blin + sud
(sud - Russ., court; trial)
NB: I'm aware of the existence of Peeping Toms and Peep-of-day
boys.
Alexey Sklyarenko