"babushki" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1960, Harrison E[vans] Salisbury, To Moscow and Beyond: A Reporter’s Narrative, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 64:",
          "text": "God knows how many babushki standing behind the shutters of their cottages had seen her.",
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          "ref": "1971, Peter J[ohn] Wiles, “Is the Soviet Agricultural Plan for 1966–70 Reasonable?”, in The Prediction of Communist Economic Performance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 332:",
          "text": "Private plots are to be allowed to flourish, and a great many babushki will be replaced by machinery and permitted to retire.",
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          "ref": "1995, Laurie Alberts, Goodnight Silky Sullivan, Columbia, Mo., London: University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 163:",
          "text": "“So, two babushki are riding the electric train. One says, ‘Oi, there is so little rain this year the cucumbers are only this big.’ ” Alyosha holds up his palms, two inches apart. “ ‘Don’t worry, dear,’ the deaf babushka says, ‘the most important thing is that a man be good.’ ”",
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          "ref": "2003, Ulbandus Review, page 181:",
          "text": "Three babushki with huge brooms approach distressed with my tears, “Stop crying. No one likes to see a woman cry, you must stop.[…]”",
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          "ref": "2010, Byrna Barclay, “Pytor”, in The Forest Horses, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 174:",
          "text": "Two babushki huddle on a bench, tapestry bags between fat knees, and they shift to make room for him and Lena.",
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          "ref": "2018, Tomas Matza, Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia, Duke University Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "One day, after having been advised by two babushki on the metro that Aarno’s boots were on the wrong feet (this time, at least, they were not), Nicole and I joined our new friends, Irina and Vera, two children’s psychologists, with our cranky one-year-old.",
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          "text": "Two babushki huddle on a bench, tapestry bags between fat knees, and they shift to make room for him and Lena.",
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