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Definition of Lungi
1. Noun. A long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma.
Definition of Lungi
1. Noun. A garment worn around the waist by many people, especially men, in Southern India, Bangladesh, Burma, and Pakistan. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lungi
1. a loincloth worn by men in India [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lungi
Literary usage of Lungi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1894)
"... paleontológica! evidence is the only evidence available. On the lungi of the
Ophidia. By Prof. ED Cope. (Read before the American ..."
2. Letters to a Young Lady on a Variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects by John Bennett (1811)
"... THE following LETTERS havt lungi.iiu by the au- . thor in a state of neglect ;
indeed of un' ..."
3. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1812)
"The table-ston«r measures ten Ice t in lungi li, by eight in breadth. Its common
nume among the natives is, y mata Llwyd. Not far distant, at a pince called ..."
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