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Sari   /sˈɑri/   Listen
Sari

noun
1.
A dress worn primarily by Hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body.  Synonym: saree.






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"Sari" Quotes from Famous Books



... The workmen looked about and found Queen Patmadhavrani in hiding close by. They told the coppersmith, and he and his men beat her soundly and drove her away. She ran into the lane of some weavers who were weaving a sari for the new queen. Suddenly none of the looms would work. They began looking about to see if any stranger had come. After a little while they found the queen. So they beat her soundly and drove ...
— Deccan Nursery Tales - or, Fairy Tales from the South • Charles Augustus Kincaid

... force the straits by naval power having resulted in failure, an army was landed on the west coast of Gallipoli, and after heavy fighting established itself on a line running from Eski-Hissarlik on the south coast of the peninsula to the region of Sari-Bair, on the north coast, constituting a front of approximately twenty miles, within five miles of the west coast. No progress further than this have the Allies been able to make up to the present, and the watch at the Dardanelles ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 • Various

... followed the successful disembarkation of the new force in that region; but those inexperienced troops and their leaders must have acted with extraordinary resolution and energy to have appreciably changed the fortunes of General Birdwood's great offensive against Sari Bair. Information from the Turkish side does not suggest that Liman von Sanders gained any great accessions of strength during July and early August. It was the ample warning which the enemy received ...
— Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 • Charles Edward Callwell



Words linked to "Sari" :   dress, frock



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