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Definition of "lungis" [lun•gis]

  • Plural form of lungi. (noun)
  • A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow. (noun)

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Use "lungis" in a sentence
  • "Members of a mostly male class whose profession and livelihood centers on washing clothes, they created a rainbow of drying saris and lungis (garments similar to sarongs) that stood out against the summer's low, muddy river and its parched bank."
  • "I went through towns that had a formal reality as names on a map, but were little more than rashes of rusted-corrugated-iron and bamboo stalls under canopies of jackfruit trees, teeming with men wearing skirt-like lungis and baseball caps and women in burkas that concealed all but their eyes and noses."
  • "The white of the lungis and the cream of the mundus, was I trying to bring that into my setting unconsciously?"
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