pagri cloth

pagri cloth

English

Noun

pagri cloth (uncountable)

1. (India, textile) A fabric used for turbans and other garments
   • 1916, The Royal Engineers Journal, p. 237,

     Pagri-cloth coats are useful in the hot weather

   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 14,

     He looked so splendidly manly, with his pagri-cloth shirt open at the throat, and his shorts and puttees and shooting boots!

   • 1977, James Elliott, India, London: Batsford, p. 191,

     As an optional extra you can, if you are a man, buy a length of gaily coloured pagri cloth, pink, red, chocolate or fretted brown or white, and have it wound on your head as a turban in the distinctive Rajput style.