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BABUSHKA

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ba⋅bush⋅ka

[buh-boosh-kuh, -boosh-]
–noun
1. a woman's scarf, often triangular, used as a hood with two of the ends tied under the chin.
2. an elderly Russian woman, esp. an elderly grandmother.

Origin:
1935–40; < Russ bábushka grandmother, equiv. to báb(a) old woman + -ushka dim. suffix
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ba·bush·ka   (bə-bŏŏsh'kə)   
n.  A woman's head scarf, folded triangularly and worn tied under the chin.

[Russian, grandmother, diminutive of baba, old woman.]
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