What is "babushkas"

Usage examples of "babushkas".

Those who remember the Poletown neighborhood before the old Dodge Main plant was taken down recall the sight of women in babushkas buying and selling poultry in the Chene-Ferry Market and ox-shouldered line-workers fisting boilermakers in the Round Bar between shifts.

Some wore yellow rain slickers with matching shapeless hats, and some wore black vinyl coats, a few with plastic babushkas, boots or sandals, galoshes or street shoes, and some were barefoot, and some had thrown coats on over pajamas, and about half of them carried umbrellas, which came in a variety of colors yet failed to contribute a note of gaiety to the gathering.