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Definition of Choli
1. a type of bodice [n -S] - See also: bodice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Choli
Literary usage of Choli
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"Choi i in a, ku, то BE STEEP, &c., as above, choli ... at a steep enough angle
to the plane of the water ('inclines to it) to be choli! clio! standing up as ..."
2. Literary Anecdotes and Contemporary Reminiscences of Professor Porson and Others by Edmund Henry Barker (1852)
"choli and ra with their ramifications are often used variously conjoined. "EXAMPLES.
Dent. 28, 59. 'Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. by William Wilson Hunter, Great Britain India Office (1908)
"The choli is a scanty bodice which confines the breasts. ... Gond and Kolam women
do not wear the choli, but conceal the breasts by drawing the end of the ..."
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