saafa
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Noun edit
saafa (plural saafas)
- A headscarf or long cloth used to form a turban in parts of India.
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 72:
- She tried to do things for him, get his slippers, fetch his saafa, button his kurta, dry his wet hair after a bath.
- 2007, India Today International, volume 6, page 6:
- For years, she has been wrapping the traditional Rajasthani headgear, the saafa or pagdi, for the local deity Ghanghor.
- 2012, Shefalee Vasudev, Powder Room:
- ‘Fashion is tangible; it can't be understood just by looking at it,' he would say admonishingly, pulling off a sari from here, a saafa from there and turning them around to show their undersides.