Osip Mandelstam: Poems Glossary

by Osip Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam: Poems Glossary

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Written by Lina Christoph

starched

hard, firm, inflexible

pauper

a very poor person

grandeur

greatness, glory, beauty

gaudy

flashy, very noticeable, flamboyant

destitution

poverty

pittance

a very small, inadequate amount

solitary

lonely

insomnia

sleeplessness (a medical condition)

taut

tight, firm

Hellas

Greece (in Ancient Greek)

alien

foreign, unknown

Achaeans

name for the inhabitants of a part of Ancient Greece

sombre

dark, gloomy

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