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Definition of Shalwars
1. shalwar [n] - See also: shalwar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shalwars
Literary usage of Shalwars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Three Years in Constantinople: Or, Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1844 by Charles White (1845)
"shalwars are loose trowsers, nearly three yards wide at the waist, ... shalwars are
made of various materials according to seasons, tastes, and fortunes. ..."
2. Three Years in Constantinople: Or, Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1844 by Charles White (1846)
"shalwars are loose trowsers, nearly three yards wide at the waist, ... shalwars are
made of various materials according to seasons, tastes, and fortunes. ..."
3. Zohrab the Hostage. by James Justinian Morier (1833)
"He then exhibited his pockets, in which there was nothing save some crumbs and
onions; he showed that in the baggy parts of his shalwars* a pair of shoes ..."
4. The United Service Magazine by Arthur William Alsager Pollock (1878)
"... are a few changes of raiment, a better frock-coat of Manchester coloured cotton
of an elaborate pattern, and perhaps a better pair of " shalwars;" and, ..."
5. Three Years in Constantinople: Or, Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1844 by Charles White (1846)
"... with scarlet shalwars. Nothing can be more graceless to European eyes than
the foot-gear of Turkish women when abroad. The shapeless yellow boot covers ..."
6. Sketches on the Shores of the Caspian: Descriptive and Pictorial by William Richard Holmes (1845)
"The costume is very simple; that of the women consists of a cloth round the head,
a pair of wide shalwars or trowsers tied tightly above the hips, ..."
7. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"They were clothed in leathern shalwars, or trousers, loose garments fastened
tight at the ankles, and inside these cats were turned loose! ..."
8. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1846)
"... and shalwars, and senators of the new school, in pantaloons and stiff cravats,"
which we agree with Mr Paton in considering as no improvement on the ..."
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