How To Use Dhoti In A Sentence
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I wore a black shirt and dhoti (a wrap-around waist cloth) and applied sandalwood paste and kumkum (red powder) to my forehead.
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An old man in a white dhoti and shirt comes in, to me he looks thin and a little bent, but otherwise OK.
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He has designed the traditional ‘Baghas ‘(ensembles worn by kings and princes), sherwanis, kurta pajamas and embroidered dhoti-kurta sets for grooms.
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He refused earthly possessions, wearing only a dhoti and shawl, lived as vegetarian and drank only goat's milk.
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A wizened man in white shirt and white tucked-up dhoti, with a dark green headcloth, put thatch on the roof of the beachside pavilion.
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A refined gentleman in a silk kurta and dhoti, a tika, or mark on his forehead, and a plate with items of worship in his hands, emerged from the wings.
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There were kurtas and saris, dhotis and lungis, trousers, towels and aprons in brilliant hues and varied textures.
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Gond men typically wear the dhoti, or loincloth.
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While most of them are attired in colourful T-shirts or track suits, others are dressed in dhotis and shirts.
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He is teased at his new school for wearing his traditional loincloth, called a dhoti.
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Asian, African and Middle Eastern attire such as the sarong, dhoti, lungi, caftan, kameez, the Chinese robe and the kimono are increasingly turning up on the catwalks of fashion capitals in the west.
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From gorgeous silk saris to plain dhotis, there is a discount on every item at the Hantex showroom.
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Men typically wear the dhoti with a kurta.
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I wore a black shirt and dhoti (a wrap-around waist cloth) and applied sandalwood paste and kumkum (red powder) to my forehead.
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With a bare, lolling chest, an almost flat stomach and a cream silk dhoti displaying his spindly, alabaster legs, he drives to the temple and parks half a block away, having reversed his car into the no-entry lane.
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Wearing a white dhoti, or wrapped pantaloon, and a faded striped shirt, the 90-year-old king looked less like the man sitting on a $22 billion windfall and more like a retired scholar.
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From gorgeous silk saris to plain dhotis, there is a discount on every item at the Hantex showroom.
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Some of the other handloom products on display are window curtains, dhotis, shirts, bedspreads, and churidars.
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Kerala has Onam, when men in white dhotis and black bodies get into long boats and race one another with synchronised oarsmanship.
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Children's warm clothes, new (not secondhand) lungis and dhotis for men. sturdy saris in wearable condition, rice and dal are welcome.
Archive 2007-11-01
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Rajput men wear the dhoti (loincloth consisting of a long piece of white cotton wrapped around the waist and then drawn between the legs and tucked into the waist), often with a cotton tunic.
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He adopted the dhoti as his usual garb, and his spinning-wheel, which he used daily, became an emblem of his belief in the importance of simplicity.
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Half the men in India are used to wearing stuff like dhotis or lungis, so what's the big deal?
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The Hantex showroom has a big collection of kasavu saris, dhotis, furnishing materials as well as pure cotton products at affordable prices.
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A bearded guy, clad in a white shirt and a white dhoti, preferred to stand and watch the game almost throughout the day - perhaps it was some superstition.
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Then he saw one figure, taller, more commanding than all the rest, wearing a white dhoti with a gold edge.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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Like all her neighbours, Deeti was preoccupied with the lateness of her poppy crop: that day, she rose early and went through the motions of her daily routine, laying out a freshly washed dhoti and kameez for Hukam Singh, her husband, and preparing the rotis and achar he would eat at midday.
Excerpt: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
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A bald man in a white dhoti was talking loudly and quickly to the driver, by the side of the truck.
A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
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I was in a rock band, but I didn't have any fear, because I had seen dhotis, your robes, and the saffron color and shaved heads in India.
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The students of Saraswati Narayanan College too decided to use the Pongal festival as an opportunity to buy handloom sarees and dhotis for all the students and staff.
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Tamils traditionally wear the dhoti or loincloth.
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This time, the Yadava Men's College has taken a stride: it will involve over 1,500 of its students, besides hundreds of teaching and non-teaching staff, in selling handloom sarees and dhotis, through 12 outlets in the city.
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There were kurtas and saris, dhotis and lungis, trousers, towels and aprons in brilliant hues and varied textures.
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Blackburn's own speciality was the dhoti, the traditional Indian loincloth, many millions of which were shipped over to Bombay and Calcutta.
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Nowadays, fashion conscious Asian men are adopting long flowing robes, jackets and dhotis or baggy kameezs and salwars, with a shawl thrown over the shoulder.
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Bare-bodied tribal member Bagun Sumbrai of the Congress, dressed in a green dhoti and sporting a green patka, also took the oath in Santhali.
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He is teased at his new school for wearing his traditional loincloth, called a dhoti.
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His kurtas and dhotis were the finest mulmul in summer and tussar in winter – both traditionally woven too, he reasoned.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
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Grab sarees, dhotis, polyester printed fabrics, cotton shirts, blouse and petticoat materials at 50 to 70 per cent discount.
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Asian, African and Middle Eastern attire such as the sarong, dhoti, lungi, caftan, kameez, the Chinese robe and the kimono are increasingly turning up on the catwalks of fashion capitals in the west.
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Hindu men wear a type of shirt called a kurta and trousers called dhoti.
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Towels, lungis, kerchiefs, nine-yard dhotis, bedspreads and ‘angavastram’ are also on sale.
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My front-gallopers swerved in among the jumble of fallen masonry and scorched timbers, howling like dervishes; I saw one of them sabring down a pandy who thrust up at him with musket and bayonet, while another rode slap into a big, white-dhotied fellow who was springing at him with a spear.
Fiancée
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We have a rich tradition of attire - dhotis, pyjamas, mundus, lungis, angavastrams.
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People bathe in the water, colourful saris and white dhotis fluttering in the breeze.
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As he steps barefoot on to the tarmac, he is joined by half-clad priests wearing only saffron dhotis.
Times, Sunday Times
