concept
Raccoon coat
raccoon coat
also: енотовая шуба
A fashionable, expensive fur coat and stock marker of a comfortably established bureaucrat's status, fantasized about by the narrator as the reward of his hoped-for promotion.
Reading notes
- From the Diary of an Assistant Bookkeeper §9 raccoon coat
A fashionable and expensive fur coat (Russian: енотовая шуба), a stock marker of a comfortably established bureaucrat's status -- the narrator's fantasy purchase once he inherits the bookkeeper's salary.