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Definition of Babushka
1. Noun. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chin; worn by Russian peasant women.
Definition of Babushka
1. Noun. An old woman ¹
2. Noun. A woman’s headscarf, tied under the chin (''this sense does not occur in Russian'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Babushka
1. a woman's scarf [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Babushka
Literary usage of Babushka
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution: Reminiscences and Letters by Alice Stone Blackwell (1917)
"... ringing Over steppe and mountain, bringing, Holy mother of the free, Millions
more thy sons to be. babushka the Beloved, What death can silence thee ? ..."
2. Inside the Russian Revolution by Rheta Childe Dorr (1917)
"They brought babushka back to Petrograd in the first rush. They gave her a
reception at the station such as no crowned head in Europe ever had, ..."
3. The Russian Empire, Its People, Institutions and Resources by August Haxthausen, Robert Farie (1856)
"he would be liberated with a small punishment, but that otherwise the babushka
would soon find out the culprit. Before she commenced her manœuvres the ..."
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