Lexicographical Neighbors of Dhutis
Literary usage of Dhutis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India by Robert Montgomery Martin (1838)
"Hi.cs cost from 1 to 4 rs. The Muga silk is the dress of the middle ranks.
dhutis, which are mostly undyed, sell from 1 to 4 rs. ..."
2. A Statistical Account of Bengal by William Wilson Hunter (1876)
"... thread is put on the looms, it is immersed in water, and then pasted over with
a starch made from boiled rice. Native cotton cloths, such as dhutis and ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"Manufacture of dhutis and saris carried on according to European methods.
Permanent market, with large trade in agricultural products. ..."
4. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1877)
"For instance, he classes hay, May, day, and sat/ as all of the same sound ;
whereas in West Somerset we should Zai, dhat dhu tea's dhutis'dee in Maa'y aa~y ..."
5. Indo-Aryans: Contributions Towards the Elucidation of Their Ancient and by Raja Rājendralāla Mitra (1881)
"In one instance in the same collection a Raja and his little boy are dressed in
dhutis reaching close to the ankles, but the attendant ladies are all in ..."
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