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matryoshka, n.
(mætrɪˈɒʃkə, ‖ maˈtrjoʃkə)
Also matreshka, matrioshka, etc.
[a. Russ. matrëshka.]
In Russia, (one of) a set of hollow and usu. decorated wooden doll figures of differing sizes, each one made so as to nest inside the next largest. Chiefly attrib. (in sing.) in matryoshka doll. Cf. Russian doll s.v. Russian a. 2 e.
The Russian plural form matryoshki is unrecorded in English use.
1948L. Gordon Pageant of Dolls ii. 80 Most typically Russian of all are the Matreshka, the nested dolls. 1964Punch 16 Dec. p. xii, Gifts at the Russian Shop..include..Matrioshka nested and swaying dolls. 1982H. Kissinger Years of Upheaval vii. 281 What emerged was like a Russian matryoshka doll that has progressively smaller models nested each inside the other. 1986B. Freemantle Kremlin Kiss vi. 48 Three sets..of matroyshka [sic], the traditional Russian doll, one of which lifts from a replica of the other until a whole family is disclosed. 1992Holiday Which? Mar. 74/3 One of the things they sell, popular with western tourists, is a Yeltsin matryoska which unscrews to reveal a sad Gorbachov and grinning Brezhnev and finally a devilish Stalin. |