Lexicographical Neighbors of Tamein
Literary usage of Tamein
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In the Shadow of the Pagoda: Sketches of Burmese Life and Character by Edward William Dirom Cuming (1893)
"The working house-dress is a cotton tamein reaching from breast to knee. In the
bazaar the lady appears in a silk skirt trailing a few inches on the ground, ..."
2. In the Shadow of the Pagoda: Sketches of Burmese Life and Character by Edward William Dirom Cuming (1897)
"The working house-dress is a cotton tamein reaching from breast to knee. In the
bazaar the lady appears in a silk skirt trailing a few inches on the ground, ..."
3. The Chin Hills: A History of the People, Our Dealings with Them, Their by Bertram Sausmarez Carey, Henry Newman Tuck (1896)
"The skirt is an open cloth on the tamein principle, but being more ample does
not show the leg as is the case with the Burmese ..."
4. Far Cathay and Farther India by Alexander Buxton MacMahon (1893)
"Fitch, as quoted by Purchas, perhaps gives the best notion of the tamein. ...
that the tamein is of ancient origin, ' for it is recorded in Plutarch's ..."
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