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Muir & Mirrielees
Muir-and-Mirrielees
also: Мюр и Мерилиз, Мюр-и-Мерилиз
A fashionable, grandly appointed Moscow department store (founded by Scottish merchants Andrew Muir and Archibald Mirrielees), invoked here purely as a mock-grand nickname for a young woman in the Bylim-Kolosovsky household, in the same comic register as her other nickname "Semiramis."
Reading notes
- To L. S. Mizinova, 20 June 1891. Bogimovo. §6 Muir-and-Mirrielees
Muir & Mirrielees, a fashionable, grandly appointed Moscow department store; the nickname mocks Amenaisa Erastovna's showy manner by comparing her to the store, in the same comic register as her other nickname, "Semiramis" (the legendary Assyrian queen).