Russian doll

English right|230px Pronunciation en en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Russian doll.wav Southern England Noun One of a set of hollow nesting dolls, usually wooden and decorated. en babushka matryoshka matrioshka doll matryoshka doll nesting doll en 2014 Fiona McArthur Midwife's Mistletoe Baby Harlequin 9781460344323 97 When she opened it he saw her eyes flash to Simon's, saw the tremulous smile and the stroke of her finger down the painted face of the Russian doll. Those dolls that had other dolls inside. en figurative An issue or situation which repeatedly reveals more levels of complexity. en nesting doll en 2012 G. Bernard Principia Economica Springer Science & Business Media 9789400909359 2 Any society is thus like a Russian doll, only much more complicated than this toy, whose inclusions are linear, i.e. unidimensional. A society can be imagined as a multidimensional Russian doll. en 2014 Julie Armstrong Experimental Fiction: An Introduction for Readers and Writers Bloomsbury Publishing 9781441107299 173 The History of Love by Nicole Krauss has been described as a complex Russian-doll structure; a narrative inside another inside another. The form is fragmented. There are multiple voices, multiple narrative strands set out en 2015 David d'Avray Papacy, Monarchy and Marriage 860–1600 Cambridge University Press 9781316299272 128 Like a Russian doll, a document within the document within the document follows. This last document is in fact the last part of the document discussed in the previous section: the résumé of the evidence and the verdict. Translations wooden doll Albanian: sq matrioshka f, sq kukulla ruse f Arabic: ar مَاتْرْيُوشْكَا f, ar دُمْيَةُ رُوسِيَّة f Armenian: hy մատրյոշկա Azerbaijani: az matryoşka Basque: eu matrioxka, eu errusiar panpina Belarusian: be матро́шка f Bulgarian: bg матрьошка f Catalan: ca matrioixca f, ca nina russa f Chinese: Cantonese: yue 俄羅斯公仔 ngo4 lo4 si1 gung1 zai2 Mandarin: cmn 俄羅斯套娃 Éluósī tàowá Czech: cs matrjoška f Danish: da matrjosjka c, da babusjka c, da russisk dukke c Dutch: nl Russische pop f m, nl matroesjka f, nl baboesjka f Esperanto: eo matrjoŝko, eo matrjoŝka pupo Estonian: et matrjoška Finnish: fi maatuska, fi matrjoshka French: fr poupée russe f, fr matriochka f, fr poupée gigogne f Georgian: ka მატრიოშკა, ka მატრიოშკები German: de Matrjoschka f, de Matroschka f, de Babuschka-Puppe f, de Matrioschka f Greek: el ματριόσκα f, el μπάμπουσκα f, el μπαμπούσκα f Hebrew: he מַטְרִיוֹשְׁקָה f matriyóshka Hungarian: hu matrjoska Ido: io enboxa pupeo Indonesian: id matrioska Italian: it matrioska, it matriosca Japanese: ja マトリョーシカ matoryōshika Korean: ko 마트료시카 Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kmr matruşka, kmr matryoşka Latvian: lv matrjoška f Macedonian: mk матрјо́шка f, mk бабушка f Malay: ms matryoshka Malayalam: ml മത്ര്യോഷ്ക പാവ Norwegian: no matrjosjka f, no matruska f, no matrusjka f Occitan: oc matrïoshca f Persian: fa ماتروشکا mâtruškâ Polish: pl matrioszka f Portuguese: pt boneca russa f, pt matrioshka f, pt matriosca f, pt matryoshka f Romanian: ro matrioșka f, ro matrioșca f Russian: ru матрёшка f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh матрјошка f, sh ба̀бушка f Latin: sh matrjoška f, sh bàbuška f Sicilian: scn matriosca f Silesian: szl matrjoszka f Slovak: sk matrioška f Slovene: sl matrioška f, sl babuška f Spanish: es muñeca rusa f, es matrioska f Swedish: sv rysk docka c, sv matrjosjka c, sv babusjka c Thai: th ตุ๊กตาแม่ลูกดก, th มาโตรชก้า Turkish: tr matruşka Ukrainian: uk матрьо́шка f, uk мотрі́́йка f Uzbek: uz matryoshka Vietnamese: vi múp bê làm tổ, vi búp bê nga, vi búp bê lồng nhau issue revealing complexity Further reading Matryoshka doll en Russia Toys