Akaki

Akaki

poor government clerk saves to buy a new overcoat, only to have it stolen. [Russ. Lit.: Gogol The Overcoat in Magill II, 790]
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Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Akaki

 

a city in Ethiopia, an industrial suburb of Addis Ababa. Population, 26,000, in 1967. There are textile, food-processing, metallurgical, and metalworking enterprises in the city.

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