Babushka
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Babushka babooshka, babouchka or baboushka may refer to:
- A Western term for a woman's headscarfHeadscarfHeadscarves or head scarves are scarves covering most or all of the top of a woman's hair and her head. Headscarves may be worn for a variety of purposes, such as for warmth, for sanitation, for fashion or social distinction; with religious significance, to hide baldness, out of modesty, or other...
tied below the chin in the Eastern European manner.- Babushka LadyBabushka ladyIn the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Babushka Lady is a nickname for an unknown woman who might have photographed the events that occurred in Dallas' Dealey Plaza at the time President John F. Kennedy was shot...
, who wore such a headscarf.
- Babushka Lady
- Babushka, an alias of Russian revolutionary Catherine BreshkovskyCatherine BreshkovskyCatherine Breshkovsky was a Russian socialist and revolutionary, better known as Babushka or, more solemnly, the Grandmother of the Russian Revolution.-Revolutionary life:She left her home at the age of 26 to join followers of anarchist Mikhail Bakunin in Kiev...
- Babushka doll, a commonly misused name for Matryoshka dollMatryoshka dollA matryoshka doll is a Russian nesting doll which is a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside the other. The first Russian nested doll set was carved in 1890 by Vasily Zvyozdochkin from a design by Sergey Malyutin, who was a folk crafts painter at Abramtsevo...
- Babushka Adoption FoundationBabushka Adoption FoundationBabushka Adoption Foundation is a charitable non-governmental organization based in Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan. It was founded in 1999 by Markus Muller; the director is Aidai Kadyrova....
- "Babooshka" (song)Babooshka (song)"Babooshka" is a song by British singer Kate Bush, taken from her album Never for Ever. Released as a single in June 1980, it spent 10 weeks in the UK chart, peaking at number five...
, a song by Kate Bush