bast-shoe russian

• ла́поть

  bast shoe, bast sandal

  simpleton, country bumpkin, yokel

• ла́потный

  backward, primitive, rustic, boorish

  bast-shoe (attributive), made of bast

• ошмётки

  rags, tatters, worn-out shoes, cast-off bast shoes

  pitiful remains, sorry remnants, last scraps

  clumps (of snow or earth), lumps

Examples

• В музее выставлены плетёные лапти.

  Woven bast shoes are on display in the museum.

• Крестьянин носил старые лапти на ногах.

  The peasant wore old bast shoes on his feet.

• Крестьяне плели лапти из лыка.

  The peasants wove bast shoes from bast.

• Из луба раньше делали лапти.

  In the past, people made bast shoes from bast.

• Дед сплёл новый лапоток для внука.

  Grandfather wove a new little bast shoe for his grandson.

• В музее висел старый лапоток крестьянина.

  An old peasant's bast shoe was hanging in the museum.

• Она нашла на чердаке маленький лапоток.

  She found a small bast shoe in the attic.