Subject:
zhiletka
From:
Alexey Sklyarenko <skylark1970@mail.ru>
Date:
Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:21:57 +0300
To:
Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>

        CK: The razor blade -- zhiletka po-russky, deriving from Gillette
 
 Zhiletka is colloquial for zhilet, "waistcoat." We borrowed it from the French, along with the phrase pleurer dans le gilet de qn (poplakat'sya komu-l. v zhiletku).

 
best,
Alexey
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