dhoti
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In the film, he ditches the white dhoti for a more stylish blue one - which he pairs with a funky suit decorated with intricate Indian motifs, and a cool hard-part haircut.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2023
Reinvigorated and clad in a saffron dhoti, Ram exacts revenge on the despotic British governor with the help of his burly friend Bheem, who bears a resemblance to the Hindu god Hanuman.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2022
His legs, stick-thin within the loose folds of a dhoti, are pulled close to his chest.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2019
An affable man, seemingly indifferent to appearances, he wore a worn orange dhoti and white shirt with a blue ink stain billowing out beneath the pocket.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2019
I had seen lots of pictures of him in the newspaper, the thin man who wore nothing but a dhoti and glasses.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
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The Croatian designer culled from different religious traditions, pairing his signature voluminous trenches and wide-cut blazers with dhotis that looked snatched off a Hindu sadhu or North African harem pants in earthy fibers.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2010
Two of the chief mourners on the duck which bore Gandhi's ashes were Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel, both clad in white dhotis, both barefoot.
From Time Magazine Archive
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New Delhi National Stadium bulged last week with Indian families in traditional saris and dhotis, but that was as far as tradition went.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Among the fertile coffee plantations on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, lounge-suited leaders of the progressive Chagga tribe queued up at polling stations alongside white planters in khaki shorts and Asian shopkeepers in dhotis.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Both were clad in dhotis of pure white; their legs were bare from the knee, their feet shod with sandals.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert