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Babushka

2 stages from Russian to English.

Today it means a triangular headscarf tied under the chin, or an old Russian woman
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Stage 1 of 2
babushka
Russian · 1800s
"grandmother, or a headscarf"
literally little grandmother, also the headscarf grandmothers typically wore
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Stage 2 of 2
babushka
English · 1930s
"a triangular headscarf tied under the chin"
settled as the word for the triangular headscarf
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