lungi

Example Sentences

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Ponraj Jeyaraj asked for a lungi, a type of sarong.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2020

Mohammad Ilyas, 55, fled to Bangladesh with only a shirt and a lungi sarong, along with dozens of others from Rathedaung township.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2018

Is that what's just happened to the lungi?

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2018

But the lungi - or lungyi, longyi, sarong etc - has now found its way on to the High Street.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2018

Inside, she found a cap, a lungi cloth, and a kurta shirt.

From "Rickshaw Girl" by Mitali Perkins