fichtr-re

Updated: May 9, 2025

He slapped Arkady on the back, and called him loudly 'nephew'; vouchsafed Bazarov who was attired in a rather old evening coat a sidelong glance in passing absent but condescending and an indistinct but affable grunt, in which nothing could be distinguished but 'I ... and 'very much'; gave Sitnikov a finger and a smile, though with his head already averted; even to Madame Kukshin, who made her appearance at the ball with dirty gloves, no crinoline, and a bird of Paradise in her hair, he said 'enchanté. There were crowds of people, and no lack of dancing men; the civilians were for the most part standing close along the walls, but the officers danced assiduously, especially one of them who had spent six weeks in Paris, where he had mastered various daring interjections of the kind of 'zut, 'Ah, fichtr-re, 'pst, pst, mon bibi, and such.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - Fathers and Children