"Angely s labarami"?

[Francoise Rosset]

>M. Vrubel' painted a painting called "Angely s 
>labarami". What are labary? How is the word 
>pronounced (lAbary, labAry, labarY)? What is its 
>gender in the singular? Where does the word come 
>from? It is missing in all the dictionaries I 
>can find.
>Thank you all for your kind help,
>--

It's a Latin word, and this is the fastest dictionary entry I had access to:

lab·a·rum n
a military banner carried before Roman emperors, 
especially one with Christian symbols that was 
carried in front of Constantine the Great as a 
sign of his conversion to Christianity

Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999 
Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. 
Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing 
Plc.

That is indeed what the angel on either side of the painting is carrying.
BUT I have no idea how it's pronounced in Russian 
nor what it's Russian nominative form might be.
-FR


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Francoise Rosset
Russian and Russian Studies
Interim Coordinator, Women's Studies
Wheaton College                         
Norton, Massachusetts 02766
        
phone: 	(508) 286-3696
fax #:   	(508) 286-3640
e-mail: FRosset at wheatonma.edu

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