Tolstoevsky

name, slang

name, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky; their respective oeuvres considered as a single corpus informal

    "The obvious effect is to create courses by popular demand, the most obvious being the Tolstoevsky combination: one semester Dostoevsky, the other, Tolstoy."

Example

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"The obvious effect is to create courses by popular demand, the most obvious being the Tolstoevsky combination: one semester Dostoevsky, the other, Tolstoy."

Etymology

Blend of Tolstoy + Dostoevsky.

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