Dhoti Sentence Examples

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  • The dhoti is a simple piece of cloth (cotton), generally white.

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  • The garment distinctive of the Hindus of all castes, men and women, all over India, is the dhoti or loin cloth.

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  • The small form of dhoti worn by men of the lower class is called langoti.

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  • The dhoti is known under many names, dhutia, pitambar, lungi, &c. In some parts of India half the dhoti only is wound round the loins, the other half being thrown over the left shoulder.

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  • He bathes in the river, shaves his head and puts on a new white dhoti.

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  • A Brahman's dhoti, as also that of some other castes, reaches to a little below the knee; a Rajput's to his ankles.

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  • Women have to wear long skirts or saris and men must wear a dhoti (a wrap-around) and go bare-chested.

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  • For the first time brawny Sanjay Dutt is seen as a village simpleton wearing a dhoti.

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  • The kachh or drawers fastened by a waist-band was more convenient and suitable for warriors than the insecurely tied dhoti of the Hindus or the tamba of the Mahommedans.

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  • Under Mahommedan influence Hindu clothing developed into " suits," consisting of five pieces for men, hence called pancho tuk kapra - (z) head-dress, (2) dhoti, (3) coat, (4) chaddar or sheet, (5) bathing cloth; and three for women, hence called tin tuk - (i) dhoti, (2) jacket, (3) shawl.

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