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tovarishch (plural tovarishches)
- Alternative form of tovarish
1963, Jews and the Jewish People, page 69:The people were surprised that the old Moshka had business with tovarishch Commissar.
1963, Jacob Klein-Haparash, He Who Flees the Lion, page 84:Yes, a watch, and this tovarishch has given it to me.
1989, Anthony Burgess, “Dau”, in Any Old Iron, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, 1990, →ISBN, page 82:["]As for Spain, do you honestly think" (she was addressing Reg) "that there's a desire on the part of Tovarishch Stalin to save Catalonian anarchism and syndicalism and liberal socialism? I shouldn’t be surprised if Moscow gold is helping to finance Franco."
2004, Wesley Adamczyk, When God Looked the Other Way, page 45:“I will remember, tovarishch,” I answered uncertainly, not knowing how I should address him.
2010, Patrik Ouředník, translated by Alex Zucker, Case Closed, page 131:There's no other way, tovarishch, no other way!