babcia
Collocations
4VERB + BABCIA
visited
BABCIA + NOUN
gobolewski, jadwiga, korosz, lottie
PREP.
in
ADV.
only
Definitions
noun
A Polish grandmother.
These cakes are from family recipes, from great-grandmothers and babcias, from kitchens as far apart as Knoxville, Tennessee, and Warsaw, Poland.
I visited my babcia Lottie Korosz in Hunlock Gardens and all the relatives on my mother’s side of the family. My babcia Jadwiga Gobolewski died while I was still in Washington, but my grandfather Wiktor greeted me warmly in Glen Lyon.
A Polish old woman.
There are many women in these processions, many of them old babcias with cheeks pink as a young girl’s under their flowered headscarves.
THE AGED IN POLAND: GOD AND WORN-OUT BABCIAS
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3These cakes are from family recipes, from great-grandmothers and babcias, from kitchens as far apart as Knoxville, Tennessee, and Warsaw, Poland.
WiktionaryI visited my babcia Lottie Korosz in Hunlock Gardens and all the relatives on my mother’s side of the family. My babcia Jadwiga Gobolewski died while I was still in Washington, but my grandfather Wikt
WiktionaryMy babcia would only stare morosely at photographs of my father’s father, showing me the black and white albums, their youth in Poland, the countryside, the funny dress, the world outside a world outs
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