babushka

noun

ba·bush·ka bə-ˈbüsh-kə

-ˈbu̇sh-

ba-

Synonyms of babushka next

: a usually triangularly folded kerchief for the head

: a head covering (such as a scarf) resembling a babushka

: grandmother

Until my own babushka's generation very specific clothes were assigned to specific classes, specific hairstyles distinguishing married from unmarried women.—

Francine du Plessix Gray

: an elderly Russian woman

… I jostled among babushkas clutching bags of food for a place on the bus …—

Gary Lee

Examples of babushka in a Sentence

an elderly Russian woman with a babushka

Recent Examples on the Web Still unclear is why an apparently healthy teenaged girl ingested trimetazidine, a drug meant to treat angina that customarily would be used by a babushka with a bum ticker. —

John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2022 In some villages, babushkas lay down in the roads blocking Ukrainian tanks, officers said, and in one, an especially cunning babushka kept stealing the soldiers’ helmets. —

BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022 The Ukrainian babushka waited for a departing train headed east. —

NBC News, 2 May 2022 The look is finished off with a silk scarf tied around her head like a babushka, gigantic sunglasses, and a Dior tote with her name embroidered onto it. —

Christian Allaire, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2022 The babushka-wearing elderly women sweeping the vast square early every morning used bunches of twigs tied to short broomsticks. —

Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2021 Retro kerchiefs appeared at Conner Ives and Anna Sui, while Paco Rabanne imagined a cozier take: A faux fur babushka. —

Steff Yotka, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2021 See More

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