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vyshyvanka

vyshyvanka noun: traditional Ukrainian and Belarusian clothing, featuring elements of Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnic embroidery.

vyshyvanka: traditional Ukrainian and Belarusian clothing, featuring elements of Ukrainian and Belarusian...
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Noun

vyshyvanka (plural vyshyvankas or vyshyvanky)

  1. Traditional Ukrainian and Belarusian clothing, featuring elements of Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnic embroidery.
    • Another explicitly 'joyful' item in my collection is the 1963 Services and Fares brochure, featuring train and ferry timetables to London (and back) from Czechoslovakia, Poland and the USSR, with a happy hopak-dancing Ukrainian cossack in a traditional Ukrainian vishivanka shirt and wide sharovari...2026 May 27, Vitali Vitaliev, “Times of hope and joy”, in RAIL, number 1062, page 68

Forms of vyshyvanka

pluralvyshyvankas
pluralvyshyvanky

Origin of vyshyvanka

From Ukrainian вишива́нка (vyšyvánka). Compare Belarusian вышыва́нка (vyšyvánka).

Questions about vyshyvanka

What does vyshyvanka mean?
Vyshyvanka means traditional Ukrainian and Belarusian clothing, featuring elements of Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnic embroidery.
What part of speech is vyshyvanka?
Vyshyvanka is a noun.
What is the plural of vyshyvanka?
The plural of vyshyvanka is vyshyvankas.

Words near vyshyvanka in the dictionary

  1. Vyse
  2. Vyses
  3. Vyshhorod
  4. Vyshneve
  5. Vyshnivchyk
  6. vyshyvanka
  7. vyshyvankas
  8. vyshyvanky
  9. Vysoke
  10. vysotskite
  11. vytin

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