Angarkha

Quick meaning: Angarkha is a noun meaning (India) A traditional outer upper garment worn by men, tied using strings in place of buttons.

Meaning

(India) A traditional outer upper garment worn by men, tied using strings in place of buttons.

Example Sentences

I didn't need her to take my shoes off and then my turban and the angarkha.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• angarkhas

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ghagra, ghaghra, kanchuki, angiya, achkan, bandhgala.

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