sa|ri

sa|ri «SAH ree», noun, plural -ris.

a long piece of cotton or silk worn around the body with one end falling nearly to the feet and the other end thrown over the head or shoulder. It is sometimes brightly colored and was once the outer garment principally of Hindu women but is now worn also by other women in India. »

The sari, which has come a long way since it left Delhi, now makes its influence felt in two-piece dacron-and-cotton dresses (New Yorker).

╂[< Hindi sārī < Prakrit sāī < Sanskrit sāī garment, petticoat]