It can mean grandmother, or the scarves that many Russian grandmothers wear.

The grandmother is wearing a black satin evening dress with a pattern of flowers and leaves in green and cream.

She did not need to point out that her grandmother wore hers in an identical fashion.

But I'd grown interested in the question all women ask when they see the things their grandmothers wore: how the hell did they do it?

Today's dentures, also called false teeth, are not like the ones your grandmother wore.

"I wonder, could you tell us what sort of clothes your grandmother usually wears?"

"You've a face like the cameo my grandmother wore around her neck."

The grandmother wore black made all the more severe by a few silver ornaments.

"This smells like something my grandmother would wear," she said.

"This ould rag was a dress yer grandmother wore in her day."