1937 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail 23 Dec. 7/2 Colored jersey is the thing for skiing or skating, and if you are down South get the gay cotton printed babushka. 1948 F. Brown Murder can be Fun (1951) vii. 106 She wore a greenish mottled babushka and..stringy hair..pushed out in front of it. 1966 G. Baxt Queer Kind of Death (1969) vi. 58 She wore a black babushka on her head tied in a solid knot under her chin. 1988 Yankee June 131/2 A woman wearing a babushka talks on the telephone, rapidly, in Yiddish. 2003 L. Faderman Naked in Promised Land vi. 109, I set my hair in bobby pins and wore an old-lady babushka over my head.
Кстати, первым значением OED дает:
In Russia: a grandmother. More generally: an elderly Russian woman. Also as a form of address.
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Date: 2013-11-06 01:13 pm (UTC)1948 F. Brown Murder can be Fun (1951) vii. 106 She wore a greenish mottled babushka and..stringy hair..pushed out in front of it.
1966 G. Baxt Queer Kind of Death (1969) vi. 58 She wore a black babushka on her head tied in a solid knot under her chin.
1988 Yankee June 131/2 A woman wearing a babushka talks on the telephone, rapidly, in Yiddish.
2003 L. Faderman Naked in Promised Land vi. 109, I set my hair in bobby pins and wore an old-lady babushka over my head.
Кстати, первым значением OED дает:
In Russia: a grandmother. More generally: an elderly Russian woman. Also as a form of address.