этажерка

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Russian

Старинная этажерка

Etymology

Borrowed from French étagère.

Pronunciation

Noun

этаже́рка (etažérkaf inan (genitive этаже́рки, nominative plural этаже́рки, genitive plural этаже́рок)

  1. bookshelf, bookcase, whatnot, etagere (a piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying ornaments or books)
    Synonym: стелла́ж (stelláž)
    • 1859, Иван Гончаров, “Часть 1, Глава 1”, in Обломов (роман); English translation from C. J. Hogarth, transl., Oblomov, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1915:
      Утончённый вкус не удовольствовался бы этими тяжёлыми, неграциозными стульями красного дерева, шаткими этажерками.
      Utončónnyj vkus ne udovolʹstvovalsja by etimi tjažólymi, negracioznymi stulʹjami krasnovo dereva, šatkimi etažerkami.
      Taste of a really refined nature would never have remained satisfied with such ponderous, ungainly redwood chairs, with such rickety whatnots.
  2. shoe rack

Declension