arshin
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of arshin
First recorded in 1725–35; from Russian arshín, from Tatar aršïn or a cognate Turkic word, ultimately from Persian
Example Sentences
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"It was a ruble an arshin, I suppose?"
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
To Chichikov's curses at Selifan for not having drawn out of the way with more alacrity a rural constable with moustaches of the length of an arshin added his quota.
From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth
It stands the Government in about a rouble the arshin, and sells for two roubles.
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh
Sometimes Vologonov knocks at the partition-wall with a superannuated arshin measure which has only fifteen vershoki of its length remaining.
From Through Russia by C. J. Hogarth
An arshin is 0.77 of a yard, so any one who knows decimals can tell exactly how high the little man was and the precise length of his beard.
From Old Peter's Russian Tales by Dmitri Mitrokhin
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