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matryoshka

n. One of a set of wooden Russian dolls of different sizes, designed such that each fits inside the next. (from 20th c.)

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Matryoshka (disambiguation)

A Matryoshka doll is a set of dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside the other.

Matryoshka may also refer to:

  • Matroska, a video format named after the nesting doll
  • Matroesjka's, a Belgian TV series
  • Matroshka experiments on the International Space Station, assessing cosmic radiation doses for space travellers
  • Matryoshka Doll, a special grenade featured in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops
  • "Matryoshka", a song by Nico Touches the Walls from the album Passenger
  • Matrioshka brain, a hypothetical computer surrounding a star
  • Matryoshka (album), 13th studio album by Belarusian rock group Lyapis Trubetskoy
Matryoshka (album)

Matryoska is the 13th and the last studio album of Belarusian rock group Lyapis Trubetskoy. It was released on the March 1, 2014.

Usage examples of "matryoshka".

Ram6n often compared it to the Matryoshka dolls in the Beriozka tourist stores, those cunningly carved nests of human figures which fitted one within the other, the outer layers protecting and hiding the precious centre.

Ramsey often compared it to the Matryoshka dolls in the Beriozka tourist stores, those cunningly carved nests of human figures which fitted one within the other, the outer layers protecting and hiding the precious centre.

In the other, five wooden soldiers whose faded and chipped paint marked them as veterans of the Candy Cane Wars laughed and drank with a jolly, if shopworn, nest of matryoshka dolls.

At the dawn of perestroika, Russian artists began painting irreverent caricatures of Mikhail Gorbachev on matryoshka dolls.

If you could lift the roof, it would resemble a Russian matryoshka doll.

Ships docked to load up our national products, goods transported from Stalingrad, Stalinsk, Stalino, Stalinbad, Stalinir, Stalinkan, and Stalinovo, goods to be sent forth to a waiting world: caviar and sables, vodka and papirosi, heroin and hashish, plutonium and red mercury, balalaikas, matryoshkas, lapel pins, rayon banners, platinum busts of our leaders, and coypu.