Lexicographical Neighbors of Dhootie
Literary usage of Dhootie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"loincloth, n. pagne (French), dhoti or dhootie (Anglo-Indian), lungi (East Indian).
lonely, a. 1. See ALONE. 2. unfrequented, lone (literary or archaic), ..."
2. Letters Received by the East India Company from Its Servants in the East by East India Company, Frederick Charles Danvers, William Foster (1896)
"Here is also a strong sort of cloth called dhootie 21 covad long as the former
two but is yard broad or somewhat better, worth some 6 m. reasonable good ..."
3. The Hindoos as They are: A Description of the Manners, Customs, and Inner by Ṣivachandra Vasu, Shib Chunder Bose (1881)
"... day or one day only previous to the beginning of the t The day before the
Kalpa begins, these priests receive new clothes, comprising a dhootie and ..."
4. The Afghan War of 1879-80 by Howard Hensman (1881)
"... thought all was over, and those carrying Major Cook dropped their dhootie in
the middle of the road. They were about to run, when Sergeant Cox ..."
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