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Kammer-junker.
The term "kammer-junker" often crops up in my translation of Chekhov, but what is a kammer-junker?
I can't believe it's a valid English term, so I'm wondering if it stands for something untranslatable. I can't find it in my English or German dictionaries (though literally, in German, it would be "chamber squire"). I'm guessing it means something like a courtier or sinecure holder, though Chekhov never shows a kammer-junker in action, and the translator could have used one of those words if she'd wanted.
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After ten o'clock he carefully dressed, often in evening dress, very rarely in his kammer-junker's uniform, and went out, returning in the morning. (An Anonymous Story.)
Peasemarch.
I can't believe it's a valid English term, so I'm wondering if it stands for something untranslatable. I can't find it in my English or German dictionaries (though literally, in German, it would be "chamber squire"). I'm guessing it means something like a courtier or sinecure holder, though Chekhov never shows a kammer-junker in action, and the translator could have used one of those words if she'd wanted.
Example:
After ten o'clock he carefully dressed, often in evening dress, very rarely in his kammer-junker's uniform, and went out, returning in the morning. (An Anonymous Story.)
Peasemarch.
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" It was common to use their supposed common characteristic of combed-out side whiskers in stereotypical descriptions. "Kammer" ("chamber") occurs in English in the similar "chamberlain" (German "Kammerherr"). Here is a passage from the Encyclopedia Britannica under "Pushkin" as an example of use: In 1831 Pushkin married Natalya Nikolayevna Goncharova and settled in St.
- " It was common to use their supposed common characteristic of combed-out side whiskers in stereotypical descriptions.
- "Kammer" ("chamber") occurs in English in the similar "chamberlain" (German "Kammerherr").
- Here is a passage from the Encyclopedia Britannica under "Pushkin" as an example of use: In 1831 Pushkin married Natalya Nikolayevna Goncharova and settled in St.
- Petersburg.
- Once more he took up government service and was commissioned to write a history of Peter the Great.
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[nq:1]The term "kammer-junker" often crops up in my translation of Chekhov, but what is a kammer-junker?[/nq]
"Kammerjunker" is a historical German term roughly translated into English as "gentleman-in-waiting" or "gentleman-of-the-bed-chamber" or, sometimes, "groom of the bed-chamber."
It was common to use their supposed common characteristic of combed-out side whiskers in stereotypical d
"Kammerjunker" is a historical German term roughly translated into English as "gentleman-in-waiting" or "gentleman-of-the-bed-chamber" or, sometimes, "groom of the bed-chamber."
It was common to use their supposed common characteristic of combed-out side whiskers in stereotypical d
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[nq:1]The term "kammer-junker" often crops up in my translation of Chekhov, but what is a kammer-junker? I can't believe it's ... often in evening dress, very rarely in his kammer-junker's uniform, and went out, returning in the morning. (An Anonymous Story.)[/nq]
It is a butler.
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It is a butler.
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