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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | | Finnish term or phrase: sarkatailelma | Here's the whole sentence: "Hän otti taisteluhattunsa, mokomankin sarkataitelman!"
The context is a description (with some humor, although the main purpose is the history, not the humor) of Napoleon dressing for a meeting with another head of state. He just determined that a crown would not do ("darn, left it in Paris..."), so he's settling for his normal field päähine. Obviously I'm not looking for a literal translation...unless you can make it work! |
| | | folded frieze | Explanation:
It is a typo, the correct term is "sarkataitelma", as "tailelma" is not Finnish at all. The noun is derived from the verb "taittaa" or "taitella", which mean "to fold". |
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| Grading comment I began from this answer: "He took up his fighting hat, hardly more than a folded piece of plain woven fabric!" "Frieze" is a type of plain weave fabric. The hat in question is a "bicorne". I chose not to use the word "frieze" for contextual reasons--no one in the intended audience would know what it means.
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