beedis
- plural of beedi.
Example Sentences
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The photograph is one of several snapped by student Rashmitha T in her village in Tamil Nadu, featuring her neighbours who make traditional Indian cigarettes called beedis.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025
In a gritty corner in the old part of the city littered with clay teacups and spent beedis, Briju Kumar jostled with dozens of others hungry for a day’s work at a construction site.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
“There was a button to thread, a broken slipper to twist into a knot, nits to comb out, wicker fans to wipe clean. The men were out, smoking beedis and talking among themselves.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2021
