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милая бесполезная вещь небольшого размера (Arivle) |
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платок (головной платок, который обычно носят советские старушки: I would hate to sound like a babushka-wearing granny. • Her hair captured under a babushka, face a stone with little intelligent eyes.); косынка; головной платок (a headscarf tied under the chin, typical of those worn by Polish and Russian women: The crowd falls silent, momentarily stunned, while a heavyset woman in a babushka pushes her way through, broadcasting the news […]. Val_Ships) |
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старушка (Shouldn't we give up the nervous fingering of the beads of the grandmas and the babushkas? igisheva); бабушка (However, I found the perennial Russian babushkas, old ladies who usually chat on the benches, and they pointed out the library, which is small and unimposing. • What makes these protests potentially more powerful than those of 1998 is that so many Russian families have a pensioner – often a beloved babushka caring for the grandchildren. • The children continued their swimming exercises in the pond, and the babushkas proceeded with their grave and slow discussions about their grandchildren, prices, and pensions.) |
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закройся! (когда надоело слушать чью-либо болтовню Babaeva A.) |
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a headscarf tied under the chin, typical of those traditionally worn by Russian women  (Headscarves, kerchiefs, but not babushkas are definitely in. • There is little for them to do apart from watch terns nesting on window sills, feed the 45-year-old bull on Russian hay, sell babushkas to tourists in the hope of US dollars and visit the (usually closed) museum. • Women may wear peasant babushkas on their heads, and men may wear hats with floppy brims. • Top hats, bowlers and gem-encrusted crowns are all considered ‘clean’, while babushkas, fedoras and coon-skin hats are all regarded as ‘filthy’. • This headcovering is often referred to as a babushka, named after the Russian word for ‘grandmother.’ • She wears sunglasses and a babushka and smokes cigarettes through a long plastic filter that looks like a pipe stem. • Still panting, Ermo slowly removes her babushka and the many layers of her winter clothing, as a perplexed Xiazi looks on passively. • The movie opens with a scrupulously framed shot of the peasant woman Ermo, wrapped in her dull yellow babushka, hawking twisted noodles at the outskirts of an unnamed northern Chinese village. • The platform on which the Yanobe figure stood was rimmed with photos of the artist posing in Chernobyl with children, older women in babushkas, or in a church or an abandoned house. • Now ladies, I'm not saying we should all follow our bubbies and throw on a babushka - I'm just saying, sometimes a little cover up goes a long way. • Directly across the car from me, next to an old woman with a gaudy cabbage rose print babushka over thinning white hair, is a young man I cannot take my eyes off of for long. • The NATO bombing also produced imagery that performs a phantasmatic imaginary, an epic Hollywood film where mighty men and high-tech bombing machines save Kosovar women in babushkas and elderly Albanians in wheelbarrows. • I even got permission from some little old ladies, babushkas and all, to have my picture taken with them.  lexico.com) |
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an old woman or grandmother (in Russia: Shouldn't we give up the nervous fingering of the beads of the grandmas and the babushkas? • My babushka was called Ceceila, an unusual name in Russia. • The children continued their swimming exercises in the pond, and the babushkas proceeded with their grave and slow discussions about their grandchildren, prices, and pensions. • The losers walk away with their tails between their legs as small children hurl rocks at them and wizened babushkas cackle insults in obscure Slavic dialects. • They vie for pavement space with old babushkas selling everything from flowers to cigarettes to kittens in socks, calendar style. • Kaliningrad is still garrisoned by a shadowy regiment of these babushkas, left over from a time when it was illegal not to work. • A babushka, very well dressed and apparently well off (these are the worst kind), decided that it was her duty to inform me that I shouldn't smoke. • Grumans serves all the Old World deli favourites, but out of loyalty I have to say that, while the food was great, it was only almost as good as my babushka's cooking. • This said, they turn their backs on the bewildered babushka and ride off. • Even matriarchs, the babushkas who enable Ukrainian families to survive, support patriarchy. • Standing behind them was Ivan, Andrei and Alexis and at the front, sitting in front of father and Nadeja was Natalia and I, both dressed in our best white muslin dresses that our babushka had bought us. • I visited one babushka's home to monitor the use of mobile ballot boxes. • Although we adored staying with our dedushka and babushka, it was too near our own home for us to be comfortable. • At the same time though I feel like telling them, this idea is not far wrong, the only difference being that all the bears are dead and draped over the shoulders of big boisterous Russian babushkas. • The only thing more Russian than bortsch and babushkas is - uh, rock 'n' roll? • However, I found the perennial Russian babushkas, old ladies who usually chat on the benches, and they pointed out the library, which is small and unimposing. • What makes these protests potentially more powerful than those of 1998 is that so many Russian families have a pensioner - often a beloved babushka caring for the grandchildren. • Inspired by the intrepid babushka, I overcame the inbred fear of Russian salesmen and requested that my order be warmed as well. • At other times he acts like a bold market reformer, risking the ire of babushkas from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok by cutting popular communist-era benefits such as free transportation and medicine for retirees and veterans. • In 1989, I walked into a church near Boris Pasternak's dacha and heard priests and babushkas reciting the litany with perfect recall as if seventy-two years of repression had never happened. lexico.com) |
