matryoshka
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Russian матрёшка (matrjóška), from personal name Матрёна, formerly Матрона, ultimately from Latin mātrōna (“matron”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
matryoshka (plural matryoshkas or matryoshki)
- One of a set of wooden Russian dolls of different sizes, designed such that each fits inside the next. [from 20th c.]
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 35:
- The past is not only a foreign country that we half knew existed; it is hiding another concealed country behind it, and behind that one, another, and another – like a set of Russian matryoshki, in which larger dolls conceal smaller.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 35:
Translations [edit]
Russian doll — see Russian doll
