lungi

Example Sentences

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I was also awestruck seeing photos of her family in their saris and lungis, and realizing they look like my family.

From Seattle Times

The modern, above-the-knee, cotton short was birthed by British soldiers in colonial India, inspired by that country’s traditional lungi wraps for men.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Alright, there's a zip involved, which does elevate it slightly beyond the old school lungi, but there seems universal agreement on Twitter that... it's a lungi.

From BBC

Barefoot, each wears a white lungi, a red shoulder-cloth and three horizontal streaks of ash across his forehead.

From Economist