Lexicographical Neighbors of Dopatta
Literary usage of Dopatta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Final Report on the Revision of Settlement of the Sirsá District in the Punjáb by J. Wilson, Sir James Wilson (1884)
"... cotton wrap (tilla or dopatta) generally dyed or printed. The wrap is often
of a dark colour ornamented with silk embroidery ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The names safa, scia, rumal and dopatta are sometimes given to this form of turban.
The scla is gaudier and more ornamental generally; it is worn by the ..."
3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"... coloured muslin of fine texture, dopatta, passed once round the waist, and
thence across the bosom and over the left shoulder and head, like the saree, ..."
4. Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque: During Four-and-twenty by Fanny Parkes Parlby (1850)
"Fourthly, the dopatta : which is the most graceful and purely feminine attire in
... The dopatta is so transparent it hides not ; it merely veils the form, ..."
5. Hand-book of the Economic Products of the Punjab: With a Combined Index and by Baden Henry Baden-Powell (1872)
"The 'dopatta' or mantle instead of being a " simple white is transformed into a
pink or yellow scarf. The ' choli ' ig made of equally •• gay material, ..."
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