angarkha
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Hindi अँगरखा (aṅgarkhā), from Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀕𑀭𑀓𑁆𑀔 (aṃgarakkha).
Noun
[edit]angarkha (plural angarkhas)
- (India) A traditional outer upper garment worn by men, tied using strings in place of buttons.
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 37:
- I didn't need her to take my shoes off and then my turban and the angarkha.
- 2012, Frank Trentmann (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption, page 148:
- And the thin muslin that made up his angarkha came all the way from Dacca in Bengal, which was the most famous centre of muslin weaving in the eighteenth-century world.
- 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 45:
- He wore a pagdi embroidered with gold and silver thread on his head, a tight-fitting intricately patterned angarkha, and tight pajamas buttoned at the ankles.