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Definition of Dupatta
1. a silk shawl [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dupatta
Literary usage of Dupatta
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)
"The poor Hindu men in full dress, use an unbleached wrapper (Dhoti) of calico,
a bleached turban, a mantle of two breadths sewn together (dupatta), ..."
2. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"[" Formerly these pieces were woven narrow, and joined alongside of one another
to produce the proper width ; now, however, the dupatta, is all woven in one ..."
3. Double Jeopardy: Police Abuse of Women in Pakistan by Asia Watch Committee (U.S.), Asia Watch Committee (U.S. (1992)
"European removed the Union Jack, and replaced it with her dupatta [head cover],
which she had made into a Muslim League flag. 61 Maulana Maududi, Purdah and ..."
4. Persia by a Persian: Being Personal Experiences, Manners, Customs, Habits by Isaac Adams (1906)
"The single article exchanged at night is the dupatta (a small shawl for the head),
and that only when it happens to be of silver tissue or embroidery, ..."
5. Notes on the Industries of the United Provinces by Sir Atul Chandra Chatterjee (1908)
"The brocade workers are almost all in the third class, while the other two classes
represent the aari and dupatta makers and the Kashi silk weavers. ..."
6. Rajputana District Gazetteers by Rajputana (Agency). (1904)
"... reaching nearly to the ankles, a loin cloth (dhoti) worn round the waist, and
a scarf (dupatta. ..."
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