concept
Defile (military term)
Defile
also: defiler
French military-parade term (defiler, "to march past") borrowed into Russian garrison jargon; the text glosses it directly in "Rasperekanalstvo!!" as part of its running joke about pretentious foreign vocabulary.
Reading notes
- Captions for Drawings §336 the march of the defile
Defile (from French defiler, 'to march past') was military-parade jargon of the period; the text glosses the French loanword directly, part of the piece's running joke about pretentious foreign vocabulary in provincial garrison life.