concept
Bekasy
snipe
also: бекасы
Snipe, a small game bird served as a refined and costly restaurant delicacy in late-19th-century Russia; cited by a character as proof of a taste for luxury incompatible with a poor man's table.
Reading notes
- A Lost Cause §50 snipe
Snipe (bekasy), a small game bird served as a refined and costly delicacy in Russian restaurants of the period; Varya cites her taste for it, against humble cabbage soup, as proof she is unfit for a poor man's household.