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- noun Traditional Russian fur cap with earflaps.
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Congratulations,” said the puffy woman behind the desk, who was wearing a coat and an ushanka hat with the earflaps tied under her chin.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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The rickety scaffolding creaked in the wind, and the workers in quilted vatnik jackets and ushanka hats staggered around, half-drunk, taking with them at the end of the day everything they could carry—doorknobs, faucets, nails.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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A ushanka sat squarely on his head as he sipped a red drink from a clear Dixie cup.
The Wannabe Warhol 2010
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When she thought of Russia, all she could visualize were men dressed in ushanka hats and valenki felt boots.
Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010
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“Congratulations,” said the puffy woman behind the desk, who was wearing a coat and an ushanka hat with the earflaps tied under her chin.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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A ushanka sat squarely on his head as he sipped a red drink from a clear Dixie cup.
The Wannabe Warhol 2010
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The rickety scaffolding creaked in the wind, and the workers in quilted vatnik jackets and ushanka hats staggered around, half-drunk, taking with them at the end of the day everything they could carry—doorknobs, faucets, nails.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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When she thought of Russia, all she could visualize were men dressed in ushanka hats and valenki felt boots.
Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010
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A well-executed Obama according to Glenn Beck's imagination should wear a Che Guevara t-shirt, a Hitler mustache, and a Soviet-style ushanka, preferably bearing a red hammer-and-sickle.
Glynnis MacNicol: Halloween Costumes Ripped From The Headlines 2009
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I need the room so I wear the Soviet naval officer's ushanka [see Pops 'site for sartorial details] ...
reesetee commented on the word ushanka
A Russian fur cap with ear flaps that can be tied up to the crown of the cap or under the chin to protect the ears from cold.
April 17, 2008
bilby commented on the word ushanka
Hmmm. I thought this was a shapka.
April 17, 2008
reesetee commented on the word ushanka
It is--I think that's the "English" word for these hats, bilby. See here.
April 17, 2008
bilby commented on the word ushanka
Looks like both are right. I just remember shapka from my Russian classes.
April 17, 2008
reesetee commented on the word ushanka
Ah. This might help, from Wikipedia:
"In the English-speaking world, it is referred to as a shapka (шáпкa), from the Russian language word for 'hat.' Ushanka literally translates as 'ear-flaps hat.'"
But you'd know better than I, since I know this much | | about Russian.
April 17, 2008