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Russian
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Noun
пове́са • (povésa) m anim (genitive пове́сы, nominative plural пове́сы, genitive plural пове́с)
- (colloquial) scapegrace; playboy
1833, Александр Пушкин [Alexander Pushkin], “Глава 1. II”, in Евгений Онегин; English translation from Stanley Mitchell, transl., Eugene Onegin, London: Penguin Books, 2008:Так ду́мал молодо́й пове́са,
Летя́ в пыли́ на почтовы́х,
Всевы́шней во́лею Зеве́са
Насле́дник всех свои́х родны́х.- Tak dúmal molodój povésa,
Letjá v pylí na počtovýx,
Vsevýšnej vóleju Zevésa
Naslédnik vsex svoíx rodnýx. - Reflecting thus, a youthful scapegrace,
By lofty Zeus’s will the heir
Of all his kinsfolk, in a post-chaise,
Flew headlong through the dusty air.
Declension