dhoti
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- noun
- /ˈdoʊti/
- Indian
- Around his waist he tied a simple blue-and-white checkered dhoti.
- wear a dhoti
- white dhoti
Examples
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Hasari is wearing a wet dhoti, caught in the middle of straightening the wheel rim of the old rickshaw.
Fiction book (1992) -
"In the five minutes it takes the water to boil, he empties three buckets over himself at the tap and wraps the fresh dhoti around his waist, hardly bothering to towel off.
Fiction book (1994) -
Dhoti: a loose wrap tied around the waist.
Fiction book (1992) -
Then he tucks up his dhoti, puts a foot on the scaffolding, and heaves up into the boat.
Fiction book (1994) -
A porter, who had tied his dhoti up around his neck, rested his hands on his knees by the Lala Sweet Shop and grinned through his tobacco-stained teeth.
Fiction book (1992) -
He knew how to make pagdi (turban) and dhoti (a man's traditional draped garment).
Academic text (2006) -
He hurries out of the sea, his dhoti flapping wetly around his ankles, and goes straight to the chalkboard leaning against the boat.
Fiction book (1994) -
Draped in a simple white dhoti, he invites me to enter.
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The groom, Varuna, dons a white dhoti robe.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dhoti comes from the Hindi word dhotī, from an old Sanskrit word meaning 'to wrap'. So a dhoti is the long cloth you 'wrap' around your waist and legs, which makes the word easy to remember.