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[devinshire.livejournal.com]

Strange question, but how do you say "gargoyle" in Russian? With my most advanced English students, I was assigned the most unfortunate task of giving them a lecture on architecture - a subject about which I know embarrassingly little. Still, I did a little background research on the internet to bone up for the lecture, but in class when I had to explain the gargoyle and its role in gothic architecture, no amount of funny faces or amateur drawings on the whiteboard could help. When I went home and checked my trustiest dictionary, there was NO gargoyle! Help?