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Definition of Pagri
1. a turban [n -S] - See also: turban
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pagri
Literary usage of Pagri
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kashmir in Sunlight & Shade: A Description of the Beauties of the Country by Cecil Earle Tyndale-Biscoe (1922)
"The pagri becomes a rope and is thrown, with the help of a stone, ... A thief
has to be kept secure until the police arrive; well, there is the pagri ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"When the turban is worn it is always of the pagri form, ... Hindus wind the pagri
in various ways as described for Mussulmans, but the angles are formed ..."
3. Letters Received by the East India Company from Its Servants in the East by East India Company, Frederick Charles Danvers, William Foster (1900)
"This is shown, in the most interesting way, by the numerous phrases in which the
word pagri is used metaphorically, such as "pagri- ..."
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