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[dezelina.livejournal.com]

another word not in the dictionary or online:

ретирадный

anyone??

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[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

As you may see, the results heavily depend on the context. Please provide context in which you encounter that word, or there's too much room to wander :)

[dezelina.livejournal.com]

I apologize for not providing the context.

The author is specifically talking about where not to live, near factories, cemeteries, and trash holes...so given your responses, I assume that it would mean toilet.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Yes, looks like. I doubt the author objects against living near a military installation. One correction: in old Russian slang, ретирада is not ANY toilet - it's specifically a public toilet, somewhere in a park or just in the street; in Soviet times, most of such facilities were, er, smelly. I mean, REALLY smelly. So, if the author warns agains living near such a place, he's got a point.