Certain dress

Usage examples of sari.

She was wearing a two-piece sari also, even though she and her husband were obviously middle class and most of her contemporaries wore the salwar khameez or a Mother Hubbard dress.

When Rupoti Apa handed her a bowl of the rice, she made a cradle of her damp sari and put the child in it while she fingered the rice into her mouth.

Head bowed, the queen of Avaric went down on one knee before the pale girl in the wedding sari.

As regards the soil, the gullies at Anzac on the spurs of Sari Bahr were quite bewildering in their heaped up confusion, partly rocky, but mainly a sort of red clay and very steep.

Sari presented her list to the sergeant for his approval, before sending them to the composting beds.

Sari, while also by this time a demasted derelict, was far ahead of her sister ships.

Jennifer and Sari, she watched Darby, Doughboy, and Dreamboat, first-year entry.

Aztecians, Persians, Hanese, Samoans, Indians in dhotis and saris, the other flavor Indians in feathers.

She was still in the sari and her fat rolls made me think of the Michelin tire guy.

And the reason is that over half of all farmers in Bangladesh are like Sari and her family: sharecroppers with not a pot to piss in, who must answer to wealthier landowners, the zamindars.

Shadow had a carful of Wednesday's guests to ferry to the restaurant: the woman in the red sari sat in the front seat beside him.

The young woman wore a saffron yellow sari wrapped around her nakedness, after the fashion of the poor women of that region, and as she stooped over the butterflies the sari, hanging loosely forwards, bared her small breasts to the gaze of the transfixed zamindar.

Parvati gave a final pitiable little yelp and out he popped, while all over India policemen were arresting people, all opposition leaders except members of the pro‑Moscow Communists, and also schoolteachers lawyers poets newspapermen trade‑unionists, in fact anyone who had ever made the mistake of sneezing during the Madam's speeches, and when the three contortionists had washed the baby and wrapped it in an old sari and brought it out for its father to see, at exactly the same moment, the word Emergency was being heard for the first time, and suspension‑of‑civil rights, and censorship‑of‑the‑press, and armoured‑units‑on‑special‑alert, and arrest‑of‑subversive‑elements.

And sometimes Koli women, their hands stinking of pomfret guts and crabmeat, jostle arrogantly to the head of a Colaba bus‑queue, with their crimson (or purple) saris hitched brazenly up between their legs, and a smarting glint of old defeats and dispossessions in their bulging and somewhat fishy eyes.

Kasturba was still dressing in Nasreen I's old, loud saris: today she had chosen one of the dizziest of the Op--Art black--and-white prints.