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correct spelling: dradedamovaya, from French drap de dames
"...She did not utter a word, she did not even look at her, she simply picked up our big green drap de dames shawl (we have a shawl, made of drap de dames), put it over her head and face and lay down on the bed with her face to the wall; only her little shoulders and her body kept shuddering…."
That was the famous Katerina I. Melodrameladova's shawl from Cri & Pun, by Tolstoyevsky :)
Victor Fet
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But definitely. By the way, does anyone on the list know the answer to the drapdedamovoy question?
Carolyn
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"...She did not utter a word, she did not even look at her, she simply picked up our big green drap de dames shawl (we have a shawl, made of drap de dames), put it over her head and face and lay down on the bed with her face to the wall; only her little shoulders and her body kept shuddering…."
That was the famous Katerina I. Melodrameladova's shawl from Cri & Pun, by Tolstoyevsky :)
Victor Fet
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From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] on behalf of Carolyn Kunin [chaiselongue@ATT.NET]
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But definitely. By the way, does anyone on the list know the answer to the drapdedamovoy question?
Carolyn
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