salwar kameez
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It’s about a beautiful sari or a salwar kameez, some light outfit for a puja, because you have to sit for a long time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Instead of his usual cargo trousers, he is wearing a blue salwar kameez.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2017
These outfits gave birth to garments like the salwar kameez - virtually seen as a national dress in India today.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2014
On Wednesday evening, in a bar upstairs, women in salwar kameez and men in kurtas mingled, mopping brows in the Mumbai humidity between air kisses.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2014
Dimple said a little prayer that she’d win a thousand-dollar lottery, turned off her monitor, adjusted her ratty gray salwar kameez, and made her way downstairs.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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