Lungyi (Noun)
Meaning
A long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- She tied the vibrant orange lungyi around her waist to keep cool in the sweltering Burmese sun.
- The traditional Burmese man carefully dressed in his finest silk lungyi and matching long-sleeved shirt for the wedding.
- Tourists marvel at the unique fabrics and colors used to create the lungyis they see being sold in the markets of Old Delhi.
- As is customary for many Pakistani men on Fridays, he replaced his Western-style pants with a comfortable cotton lungyi for prayer.
- In the sweltering heat of a summer day, the cotton lungyi wrapped around her hips proved to be a most practical garment for the Indian woman working in her garden.