lungi
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- noun
- Indian
- Lungi: A colorful, less expensive, and less formal version of a dhoti.
Examples
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I take off my shirt and lungi and wade past the tired heave of the ocean until I'm neck deep in it.
Fiction book (1994) -
He's suffering three eternities of hell, and all you can think of is putting your hand in your lungi and waxing your flagpole.
Fiction book (1994) -
And as I have what's called lungi, which is looks like a night, night shirt.
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I drop the towel on his shoulders and say in a sweet voice, "Your lungi is wet, maisthri."
Fiction book (1994) -
And here was this young man who was with funny shaped ears who would even wear like lungis, you know, to, to, to meet the king of England.
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He scoops it into the hem of his lungi and ties a knot in the cloth.
Fiction book (1995) -
Except for a gigantic red turban, pleated and coiled like a python, and a sarong-wrapped lungi, he is unclothed.
Fiction book (1995) -
He wore a bright blue lungi while walking along the beach in the warm sun.
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At the festival, many men proudly displayed their colorful lungis as part of the traditional attire.
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The tailor expertly draped the lungi around his waist, ensuring it was secured properly.
Synonyms
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A simple cloth worn around the hips to cover the private parts
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A long piece of cloth worn like a skirt in Myanmar
A long piece of colorful cloth wrapped around the waist like a skirt
How Revealing
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lungi comes from Bengali and other South Asian languages, where it names a long piece of cloth worn around the waist. A helpful way to remember lungi is to think of it like a 'long' skirt or sash you wrap around yourself, which is exactly why the word means that skirt-like cloth today.