kazabaika

English

Etymology

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Noun

kazabaika (plural kazabaikas)

1. A short fur-lined cloak or jacket.
   • 1891, Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, The New Job, page 127:

     Theofil was decidedly embarrassed, but he acted as best he could, and throwing himself at the feet of the pretty mistress kissed the edge of her kazabaika.

   • 1910 July 23, “Esterka, The Jewish Queen of Poland: translated from the German for the Reform Advocate by Edward Hirsh”, in The Reform Advocate, volume 39, page 1145:

     Suddenly the door leading to the adjoining room opened, and a young girl entered, her slender figure was wrapped in a silk robe of many folds and a kazabaika trimmed with fur, on her neck and arms she wore corrals and pearls, her long black tresses were braided with golden threads and her small feet were encased in red slippers.

   • 2012, Asanti Mori-Palca, Fifty Shades of Green, page 148:

     She den leaned back on de cushions, and slowly jimmey'd ha' kazabaika. WORD!