pitambar
English edit
Etymology edit
From Hindi.
Noun edit
pitambar (plural pitambars)
- (India) A yellow silk cloth or shawl.
- 1950, AJ Agarkar, Folk-dance of Maharashtra, page 78:
- He wears a pitambār – a costly silk garment, which is his traditional dress.
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 76:
- Her gods and goddesses sat on a yellow pitambar which covered a raised platform.
- 2008, Vinny Chitluri, Baba's Vaani: His Sayings and Teachings, page 17:
- Indeed she did have a pitambar in her trunk. She had bought it a long time ago and forgotten about it.