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Word: kormushka (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...small window that let in narrow strips of light. "It had metal jalousies to keep out the sun and block the view to the prison yard," Begun said. At the other end was an iron door fitted with multiple locks and a closed rectangular slot called a kormushka, or feeding door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union A Day in the Depths of the Gulag | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...Breakfast is passed through the kormushka in a shallow bowl. Bread, a thin gruel called kasha, and hot water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union A Day in the Depths of the Gulag | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...working day begins. Guards push a pile of hempen fiber through the kormushka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union A Day in the Depths of the Gulag | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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