babushkas

There were dusty moldings and plaster garlands high along the peeling plaster walls, and velvet czarist drapes rotting around a view of some damp little park where old women in babushkas, so gnarled and hunched our own society would have had them on the junk heap, swept the dirt paths with brooms that were just twigs tied to sticks.

Licks of Love in the Heart of the Cold War 1998

There were dusty moldings and plaster garlands high along the peeling plaster walls, and velvet czarist drapes rotting around a view of some damp little park where old women in babushkas, so gnarled and hunched our own society would have had them on the junk heap, swept the dirt paths with brooms that were just twigs tied to sticks.

Licks of Love in the Heart of the Cold War 1998

Aren't headscarves called babushkas in East Central Europe?

More on Bosnia - religion in Kindergartens... GayandRight 2009

So many of my Muslim American friends stopped going out for months, removed their hijabs (head coverings once called "babushkas" in the 1970s), or draped their heritage flags around their car hoods.

Ray Hanania: Malkin, Rachael Ray and the Real Symbols of Hatred in America 2008

Straigthforward black-and-white compositions mirror the photographer's own approach as he banters with babushkas and farmer's daughters alike, playfully teasing subjects who often respond with a blunt, mordant humor.

Waking Lives, Dream States Steve Dollar 2011

For around €80 a night, guests can sleep in simple, pine-clad rooms, dine on comfort food such as borscht in the canteen and be treated to mud baths and mineral soaks, administered in ancient cast-iron tubs by stern babushkas.

Latvia's Burgeoning Spa Scene Jemima Sissons 2011

At our hotel, the Park Hyatt, syrniki arrived at the table studded with raisins and thick with cheese that retained its natural, curdy consistency, while at Vogue Café they were raisin-less, whipped and smoothed into delicate discs few Russian babushkas would recognize.

Beyond Blini Edward Schneider 2011

  At our bus stop, the exploding babushkas cast icicles at us standing among them, imaginatively naked in the March frost, dispassionately knowing we so irregular were but a pogrom away from baby Jesus.

Soviet Adam Henry Carri 2010

They stop into Louise's little shop, tell her their kids are here, more on the way, Harvey admiring the Amethyst pendants while Julianne and Louise stare at the ascending rows of Matryoshka dolls that look like rainbows crashed into armless women wearing babushkas.

Julianne cully perlman 2010

In the markets babushkas, old women wrapped in layers of cardigans, sat stoic and quiet, stout legs splayed from calf-length floral skirts, with their meager home-grown produce on the pavement before them.

Alastair Humphreys: For Russia With a Smile Alastair Humphreys 2010