pattu
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- noun
- Indian
- For the festival, she chose a vibrant pattu fabric to sew a traditional dress.
- a woman's pattu
Examples
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She remembers doing up the buttons on the dying woman's blouse, replacing the tarnished silver pins that held the woman's pattu dress.
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Mary remembers pulling the silver pins from the woman's pattu, the yards of brightly woven wool that all the village women wear.
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Mary picks up another apple, her worn-down little paring knife, and she remembers what she saw back when she'd pulled the old woman's pattu down, unbuttoning her cotton blouse.
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The bride wore a stunning pattu sari that shimmered in the sunlight.
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Merchants in the market displayed various colors of pattu cloth made from fine silk.
Synonyms
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A fine soft silk cloth used for linings and delicate clothes
A thin, light fabric made from pineapple leaves and woven by hand in the Philippines
How Fine
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pattu comes from a South Indian word that means 'silk', and it names the fine fabric used to make saris and other traditional clothes. So, when you hear pattu sari, think 'silk sari'.