dhoti

[ doh-tee ]

/ ˈdoʊ ti /

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noun, plural dho·tis.

a long loincloth worn by many Hindu men in India.

the cotton fabric, sometimes patterned, of which the loincloth is made.

RELATED WORDS

lavalava, pareu

Nearby words

Also dhoo·ti, dhoo·tie, dhu·ti

[doo-tee] /ˈdu ti/.

Origin of dhoti

Borrowed into English from Hindi around 1615–25

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Examples from the Web for dhoti

He felt the blood trickling down his face; from time to time he wiped it away with the loose end of his dhoti.
In Clive's Command|Herbert Strang
Dermot saw that the corpse was that of a low-caste Hindu, clad only in a dirty cotton koorta and dhoti.
The Elephant God|Gordon Casserly
The priest arose, bathed, opened the shrine, and found the kshir under the lappet of the god's dhoti.
Chaitanya's Life And Teachings|Krishna das Kaviraja
I have been trying to buy a few things—a sarong, which is a putso which is a dhoti; a pipe; and a "damned Malayan kris."
From Sea to Sea|Rudyard Kipling

He was not one of our men, but a common ryot, clad simply in a dhoti or waist-cloth, and a rather dirty turban.
Mr. Isaacs|F. Marion Crawford

British Dictionary definitions for dhoti

dhoti

dhooti, dhootie or dhuti (ˈduːtɪ)

/ (ˈdəʊtɪ) /

noun plural -tis

a long loincloth worn by men in India

Word Origin for dhoti

C17: from Hindi

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Word Origin and History for dhoti

dhoti

1620s, from Hindi dhoti.