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Russian
Etymology
From стря́пать (strjápatʹ).
Pronunciation
Noun
стря́пчий • (strjápčij) m anim (genitive стря́пчего, nominative plural стря́пчие, genitive plural стря́пчих, feminine стря́пчая)
- (historical, dated, law) solicitor; lawyer
1790, Александр Радищев, “Тосна”, in Путешествие из Петербурга в Москву; English translation from Leo Wiener, transl., A Journey From St. Petersburg to Moscow, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958:На вопрос мой — кто он был? — узнал я, что то был старого покрою стряпчий, едущий в Петербург с великим множеством изодранных бумаг, которые он тогда разбирал.- Na vopros moj — kto on byl? — uznal ja, što to byl starovo pokroju strjapčij, jeduščij v Peterburg s velikim množestvom izodrannyx bumag, kotoryje on togda razbiral.
- When I asked who he was, I learned that he was a lawyer of the old school, going to Petersburg with a great heap of ragged papers, which he was then sorting.
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