Babushka

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

"Babooshka" (song), a 1980 song by Kate Bush
Babushka Lady is a nickname for an unknown woman who might have photographed the events of the President John F. Kennedy assassination
Babushka Adoption Foundation, a charitable non-governmental organization based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Baboushka and the Three Kings, a story
Buranovskiye Babushki, a Russian ethno-pop band containing eight elderly women from Buranovo, Udmurtia
Headscarf, an Anglicised term for a Russian woman's babushka-type headwear
Catherine Breshkovsky nicknamed Babushka, a Russian revolutionary
Matryoshka doll, babushka doll is a commonly used name

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