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noun a woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chin; worn by Russian peasant women
originBorrowed from Russian ба́бушка (bábuška, “grandmother”), from Old East Slavic бабушка (babuška, “grandmother, midwife”). First attested in the 1830s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0