отопочки

English translation: (worn out) bast shoes

23:36 Jun 4, 2016
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Russian term or phrase: отопочки
Again from a 19th century short story describing an encounter between a Gypsy woman and a village resident:

Взяв поданный ей хлеб, старуха успела разглядеть, что на столе есть сахар, и продолжала просить, для близнят же, по кусочку сахару. Когда она получила его, то стала осведомляться, нет ли старенького платьица, отопочков, паголенков или других каких обносков?

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Deborah Hoffman
Local time: 04:02
English translation:(worn out) bast shoes
Explanation:
https://oesteuropastudier.dk/ordbog/index.php/list/[orv-rus]...

It says that лапотки = отопочки (изношенные лапти).
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3 +2(worn out) bast shoes
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(worn out) bast shoes


Explanation:
https://oesteuropastudier.dk/ordbog/index.php/list/[orv-rus]...

It says that лапотки = отопочки (изношенные лапти).

Oleksiy Markunin
Canada
Local time: 04:02
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alexander Kayumov: Yep. (ото́пток "сношенный башмак" (Даль). От то́пать, топта́ть.) Отопочки - plural diminutive of отопок.
27 mins
  -> Thanks, Alexander!

agree  Erzsébet Czopyk: шляпу вниз
3 hrs
  -> Thanks =)
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