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