lungyi
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But the lungi - or lungyi, longyi, sarong etc - has now found its way on to the High Street.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2018
Scattered through the fields are the harvesters, whose brightly-coloured "lungyi" and gay head-scarf are the only spots of definite colour.
From Burma Peeps at Many Lands by Kelly, R. Talbot (Robert Talbot)
The latter proved to be a languid person with a blue lungyi twisted about his hips.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry
Here comes a pretty young mother clad in "lungyi" of apple-green and dainty white jacket.
From Burma Peeps at Many Lands by Kelly, R. Talbot (Robert Talbot)
She is standing behind a table stacked high with blue jeans; most of the milling crowd is dressed in lungyis, Myanmar’s skirt-like national dress.
From Economist ● Jul. 18, 2017
With the exception of one Burman, who wore formal morning dress, the delegates wore gay silk lungyis and scarlet headdresses.
From Time Magazine Archive
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