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lon·gyi  (lngg, lng-)
n.
Variant of lungi.
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Noun1.longyi - a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma
lungi, lungyi
piece of cloth, piece of material - a separate part consisting of fabric
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She was remembered then for her exotic appearance: She nearly always wore Burmese longyi and adorned her hair with flowers she picked up from the college's gardens, a habit she inherited from her mother Khin Kyi.
The power of the powerless by Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
She came out of it with just the longyi (wrap worn around the legs by Burmese women and men) her mother had used to cover her at night; now her most precious possession.
A shrunken world: caught in the crossfire of armed resistance and the ... by Godrej, Dinyar / New Internationalist
A Rangoon teashop where, at night, servers sleep in a "tangled pile of arms, legs, and longyi," the Burmese sarong.
Regime unchanged: how Burma's ruling junta has endured by Kurlantzick, Joshua / Washington Monthly
 
 
 
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