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Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / painting | | English term or phrase: crepe | Van Gogh wrote, 'I have depicted no type of shade or shadow; I have only applied simple plain colors, like those in crêpes.'
Блинчики?Ткань креп? |
|  saariselkaKudoZ activityQuestions: 31 (none open) ( 2 closed without grading) Answers: 16
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| | тень | Explanation:
crêpe de la nuit ночная тень
Новый большой французско-русский фразеологический словарь. © «Русский язык-Медиа», 2005, Гак В.Г. 50 тыс. статей.
Возможно, лучше искать ответ в паре ФР-РУ. |
| Selected response from:
 Oleg Delendyk
Ukraine
Local time: 20:46
| Grading comment Спасибо, что так быстро и точно!
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19 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1
42 mins confidence:
40 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +3 здесь: (японские) эстампы/гравюры
Explanation:
prints, particularly woodcuts have been (sometimes still are) made on the so-called crêpe paper. However, Van Gogh habitually used this term for Japanese prints in general. To be safe, you may wish to skip "Japanese" and just say “как на гравюрах/эстампах“.
Please have a look: http://vangoghletters.org/vg/terminology.html
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Note added at 2 hrs (2012-01-02 11:03:34 GMT)
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При жизни, он охотно поменял бы гравюру-другую на тарелку блинчиков. :)
| Michael Korovkin
Local time: 19:46
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:  English, Russian
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Asker: Вы меня просто спасли от позора с блинчиками, спасибо!
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