concept
Milostisudar
my good sir
also: милостисдарь
An archaic, faintly pompous form of polite address ("gracious sir") that by Chekhov's day read as old-fashioned and slightly comic in a speaker's mouth.
Reading notes
- The Guardian §5 my good sir
A translation of "милостисдарь" ("milostisudar"), an archaic and by Chekhov's day faintly comic form of address ("gracious sir") that marks the general's old-fashioned, self-important speech.