Babushka

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Babushka or baboushka or babooshka (from Russian: ба́бушка; IPA: [ˈbabʊʂkə], meaning "grandmother" or "old woman") may refer to:

  • An Anglicised term for a woman's headscarf tied below the chin, originally worn by Russian elderly women, but now Europe-wide
  • Babushka, an alias of Russian revolutionary Catherine Breshkovsky

Leah Kathmann