shuba

An old Russian lady bundled in a sheepskin shuba tottered along the station platform, bleating a ditty about her only ware, a bottle of sour milk.

This Side of Ultima Thule 1997

The blue lights died; the keen went low note shuba-shuba-shuba in darkness and died.

The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

I may add that a Russian proverb says "Love your wife like your soul and beat her like your _shuba_" (overcoat); and, according to another Russian proverb, "a dear one's blows hurt not long."

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899

"Then please to give me my _shuba_ and galoshes, and call a sledge."

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

I wore my fur-lined cloak (_shuba_) and wrapped up my ears, by Russian advice as well as by inclination, until late in May.

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

The lady in the velvet _shuba_, lined with sable or black fox, her soft velvet cap edged with costly otter, her head wrapped in a fleecy knitted shawl of goat's-down from the steppes of Orenburg, or pointed hood -- the _bashlyk_ -- of woven goat's-down from the Caucasus, has driven hither in her sledge or carriage, and has alighted to gratify the curiosity of her sons.

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

A "proud porter," a vast creature, in uniform suggestive of embassies and kings 'palaces, relieved me of my _shuba_, and I found my way into a very large and high hall, brilliantly lighted as if for a thousand guests, while the only occupants were four couples, "spooning" _sans gene_, one in each corner and a small party of men and girls drinking in the middle.

The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

Beshomengro pende ta ker laki chiv apre a shuba sims Gorgios te adenne lelled laki adre a tan sar desh te dui gorgi chaia.

The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

Another tradition states that the dog was originally "naked," _i. e._, without hair; but the devil, in order to seduce it from its loyalty, gave it a _shuba_, or pelisse, _i. e._, a coat of hair.

Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858

[Footnote: Polushubok, little half shuba, or fur cloak.] but on the side toward me there was no pocket in the jacket, and his small red hand fell into an awkward position.

Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 1830