as in handkerchief
a scarf worn on the head an elderly Russian woman with a babushka

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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 See all Example Sentences for babushka 

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“Babushka.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/babushka. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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