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Can someone please help with translation of bolded parts -- what do they mean?

Перед дверями выделевал коленца парень в белом чепчике, в корсете поверх пиджака, с наусниками на бритых губах.

and later

"Корсет положу на паркет, шлычку -- на поличку, а губную подтяжку -- в упряжку: коли вывезет -- во всем парате выеду на демонстрацию..."

thank you

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[oryx_and_crake]

you have a typo - выделЫвал
выделывать something is more or less the same as делать but with additional meaning of doing something complicated or weird.
коленца - capers, dance movements.

By the way, you can find both words here: http://multitran.ru/c/m.exe?l1=2&l2=1&s=%E2%FB%E4%E5%EB%FB%E2%E0%F2%FC+%EA%EE%EB%E5%ED%F6%E0


"Корсет положу на паркет, шлычку -- на поличку, а губную подтяжку -- в упряжку" is completely obscure and unintelligible (of course, I know what корсет and паркет are but it does not help). It looks like a stream of conscience or just rhyming for the sake of rhyming, without trying to make any particular sense.

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thank you
I looked up "kolentse" and came up with "diminuitive of knee" which confused me

[oryx_and_crake]

It just occurred to me that губная подтяжка could refer to the mustache holders, which makes the second sentence a little bit more lucid.

[korica.livejournal.com]

Hello :)
"Выделывал коленца" means dance.
And I have no idea, what does mean "губную подтяжку -- в упряжку" :)))

But! "во всем параДе" -- it's correct.

[oryx_and_crake]

But! "во всем параДе" -- it's correct.
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Not necessarily. If this is a quote from some Russian classic writer, which I bet it is, it must be chock full of obsolete and idiosyncratic spelling.

[blue-segment.livejournal.com]

yes I assume it was to underscore the characters "outdatedness"

thank you

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thank you
:)

[whitest-owl.livejournal.com]

Выделывать коленца - to dance wildly with much enthusiasm but without any talent.

Наусники - is a mustache holder. Like modern hair curler, but for mustaches. The thing which men of XIX-th century put on the mustaches before going to bed to force mustaches into specific shape. Here is one of the examples: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:064a.jpg
As you understand to wear наусник on a shaved face is a very strange thing.

[oryx_and_crake]

Выделывать коленца - to dance wildly with much enthusiasm but without any talent.
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Not really. Коленца are complicated dance movements.

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thank you very much for that info
it does sound very strange