sarafan

• MILAN, Sep 20, 2008 / FW / -- The sarafan, a traditional Russian long, shapeless jumper dress that was very popular during 18th century Russia among the peasants. —  Fashion Newsletter
• It is a species of thick pelisse worn over the "sarafan," or gown XXI But borne in spirit far away Tattiana gazes on the moon, And starting suddenly doth say: "Nurse, leave me. —  Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
• Surely we've lived on friendly terms with her for an age Take the feast-day sarafan,"[236] cries Need from behind the stove; "and with the money you get for it buy a ham and take it to your brother's Have you been living here long, Need?" —  Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
• So he takes his wife's last sarafan, wraps up the pitcher in it, and flings the bundle into an ice-hole. —  Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
• And besides all, old Frost gave her a blue "sarafan" ornamented with silver and pearls Illustration: "_Old Frost gave the gentle girl many beautiful, beautiful things When the young girl put it on she became such a beautiful maiden that even the sun smiled at her The stepmother was in the kitchen busy baking pancakes for the meal which it is the custom to give to the priests and friends after the usual service for the dead Now, old man," said the wife to the husband, "go down to the wide fields and bring the body of thy daughter; we will bury her The old man went off. —  Folk Tales from the Russian

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