pagri cloth

English

Noun

pagri cloth (uncountable)

  1. (India, textile) A fabric used for turbans and other garments
    • 1916, The Royal Engineers Journal, page 237:
      Pagri-cloth coats are useful in the hot weather
    • 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 14He looked so splendidly manly, with his pagri-cloth shirt open at the throat, and his shorts and puttees and shooting boots!”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
    • 1977, James Elliott, India‎, London: Batsford, page 191:
      As an optional extra you can, if you are a man, buy a length of gaily coloured pagri cloth, pink, red, chocolate or fretted brown or white, and have it wound on your head as a turban in the distinctive Rajput style.
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