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Definition of Lungyi
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 Lungyi
1. lungi [n -S] - See also: lungi
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lungyi
Literary usage of Lungyi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Burma: The Land and the People by Robert Talbot Kelly (1910)
"Their costume is much the same as the men's, except that no head-dress is worn, —
the same dainty white jacket and coloured "lungyi," or, in the case of ..."
2. Journal of an Embassy from the Governor General of India to the Court of Ava by John Crawfurd, ----- Clift, William Buckland (1834)
"... raiting for one about four or five miles below lungyi, I landed about noon,
with Dr. Wallich, ..."
3. The Romantic East: Burma, Assam, & Kashmir by Walter Del Mar (1906)
"The former is a loose double-breasted jacket with mandarin sleeves and falls over
the lungyi, which, whenever the wearer can afford it, is of thin silk and ..."
4. The Indian Forester (1893)
"The latter is the pattern of the ' lungyi ' worn by Foresters and Forest Guards
in Burma ..."
5. The Chin Hills: A History of the People, Our Dealings with Them, Their by Bertram Sausmarez Carey, Henry Newman Tuck (1896)
"... and the Indian lungyi. Hats and coats made of bark, grass, bamboo, and the
leaf of the date-palm are worn to protect the body from rain. ..."
6. The Indian Forester (1893)
"The latter is the pattern of the ' lungyi ' worn by Foresters and Forest Guards
in Burma. We are of opinion that No. 2 is ' too terrible ' as a bright gaudy ..."
7. Letters of Gilbert Little Stark, July 23,1907- March 12, 1908 by Gilbert Little Stark (1908)
"Maung Tun wears a pink silk turban, a white jacket, and a gorgeous silk skirt,
called a lungyi. On his bare feet are slippers, which he always takes off ..."
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