babushka
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The title character and occasional commentator, played as a gloomy babushka in a red headscarf by David Turner, foresees little hope for a glorious future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Oliver presents as all sunny, breezy love, sporting a trucker cap over a babushka over bleached pink hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
As a boy, I hand-made pelmeni with my babushka Alla, my hands and face covered in flour as we worked in the cold of my grandparents’ basement in Paterson, New Jersey.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
Another gallery of street photography has an uptown/downtown feel, moving from two ladies in hats at the Hotel Pierre to a blanket-covered babushka on the Lower East Side.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2011
Ruthie, tall skinny lady with red lipstick and blue babushka, one blue sock and one green because she forgot, is the only grown-up we know who likes to play.
From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
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