carrick
suomi-englanti sanakirjacarrick englanniksi
(alternative spelling of)
A greatcoat.
(quote-book) (translator); Vladimir Nabokov|title=Invitation to a Beheading|passage=(..) here there was little hairy Pushkin in a fur carrick, and ratlike Gogol in a flamboyant waistcoat, and old little Tolstoy with his fat nose (..)
''c''. 1948, (w), "Lecture on ''The Metamorphosis''" (reprinted in ''Lectures on Literature'', 1980)
- A poor man is robbed of his overcoat (Gogol's "The Greatcoat," or more correctly "The Carrick") (..)
heavy overcoat