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lungi

noun as in turban

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He wore a short lungi, a kurta shirt, and a cap.

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I was also awestruck seeing photos of her family in their saris and lungis, and realizing they look like my family.

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The modern, above-the-knee, cotton short was birthed by British soldiers in colonial India, inspired by that country’s traditional lungi wraps for men.

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Mohammad Ilyas, 55, fled to Bangladesh with only a shirt and a lungi sarong, along with dozens of others from Rathedaung township.

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Alright, there's a zip involved, which does elevate it slightly beyond the old school lungi, but there seems universal agreement on Twitter that... it's a lungi.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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