Russian chandelier
The word Russians Luster , even Russians lamps or Russian Luster , hereinafter referred Austrian parlance the room lighting by means of a light bulb hanging in a simple version with no lampshade directly on the power cord from the ceiling.
The designation takes the the Austrian Luster ( federal German : chandeliers ) mentioned chandelier and then evaluates it from one hand to the means Viennese dialect "do something Russian" a sloppy or only temporary workmanship. However, the word “Russian chandelier” can also mean the (assumed) Spartan equipment of Russian households. In the Viennese dialect lexicon it is explained as “naked lightbulb”.
At the end of the 19th century, the name "Russian light" was common for the electric lamps made according to designs by the Russian inventor Pawel Nikolajewitsch Jablotschkow. This name may also have contributed to the development of the term Russian chandelier.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Teuschl : Wiener Dialekt-Lexikon. Residenz Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-7017-1464-3 , p. 271.
- ^ Teuschl: Wiener Dialekt-Lexikon. P. 187.
- ^ Walter Koschatzky : Fascination Art: Memories of an Art Historian . 2001, p. 286 [1]
- ^ Robert Sedlaczek : Dictionary of Viennese. Haymon, Innsbruck / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85218-891-1 , p. 218.
- ^ Sagen.at: Russians in Vienna .
- ↑ standard.at: Russians Luster: a greeting from the East January 31 of 2006.
- ↑ http://www.boehlau-verlag.com/download/162046/978-3-412-20456-3_WB.pdf