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- noun A brimless Russian
fur cap .
Etymologies
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Examples
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We had paid for our repairs in bottles of Moldovan wine, which evidently works wonders—the shapka wearers made the car run better than it ever had.
Finding Yourself in a Country That Isn't Neil Strauss 2011
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Mr. Carter indeed collects hats (a replica Napoleonic cap and a Revolutionary wig-and-hat combo rest on his dresser), and throughout the most recent bedtime-story night, he mingled around the house in an outlandish cream shapka.
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Last time I had a panic attack in the middle of the night, I dozed through the wee hours of the morning wearing a shapka.
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The Russians have a saying: "Tyajela ti shapka manomakha" — "The crown of the czar is very heavy."
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The Russians have a saying: "Tyajela ti shapka manomakha" — "The crown of the czar is very heavy."
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At the St. Petersburg bookstore, Mozgov purchased a pair of Russian novels and a furry shapka-ushanka, a military hat.
NYT > Home Page By HOWARD BECK 2010
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At the St. Petersburg bookstore, Mozgov purchased a pair of Russian novels and a furry shapka-ushanka, a military hat.
NYT > Home Page By HOWARD BECK 2010
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I have a servant for that kind of thing, Katoma _dyadka_, of the oaken _shapka_. "
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858
reesetee commented on the word shapka
A brimless Russian hat of fur or sheepskin. See ushanka.
February 15, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word shapka
"Covering her head and her ears was a huge white Arctic fox shapka."
—Richard Stone, Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2001), 198
September 22, 2008