Lexicographical Neighbors of Lungyis
Literary usage of Lungyis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"The men wear colored lungyis, or skirts, bright waistcoats, white jackets, and
gorgeous turbans, in which their long black hair is done up. ..."
2. Burma: The Land and the People by Robert Talbot Kelly (1910)
"Young women come and go bearing pots of water or bundles of firewood, while their
eldest sit at their thresholds stitching up cotton "lungyis," or the more ..."
3. The Romantic East: Burma, Assam, & Kashmir by Walter Del Mar (1906)
"... the young men to be tattooed, and the young women to wear their lungyis so as
to expose one thigh, as they are still sometimes worn in Mandalay. ..."
4. The imperial gazetteer of India [by] W.W. Hunter by India, William Wilson Hunter (1881)
"Quite recently, mills with steam machinery have been established at Bombay, which
weave silk fabrics for the Burmese market, chiefly lungyis, ..."
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