babushka

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Many Russian grandmothers wear scarves on their heads-hence the odd porting of the word babushka in America to refer to a head scarf itself.

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  1. noun A woman's head scarf, folded triangularly and worn tied under the chin.

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  • Her hair captured under a babushka, face a stone with little intelligent eyes. —  The Shipping News
  • Then I'm getting dressed and she's like, Oh, my little babushka, let my driver take you home. —  VQR
  • The FSB is the agent of his demonic power, and every indifferent Russian down to the babushka selling sunflower seeds outside of the Barrikadnaya metro stop is partly responsible. —  VQR
  • Come to find out, the two girls that we had originally intended to adopt were no longer available for adoption because their babushka had decided to take patronage of them, which takes them off the available list. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • As Real Housewife of New York Kelly Bensimon shuffles around in her babushka, keening and trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life like she was in some sort of sad, foreign war movie, she's letting some bygones by bygones. —  Gawker
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  1. Russian, grandmother, diminutive of baba, old woman.
 

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