Definitions for dhotis

dhotis dho·ti

Spelling: [doh-tee]
IPA: /ˈdoʊ ti/

Dhotis is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in dhotis (dhiost).

Definitions for dhotis

noun

  1. a long loincloth worn by many Hindu men in India.
  2. the cotton fabric, sometimes patterned, of which the loincloth is made.

Origin of dhotis

Borrowed into English from Hindi around 1615-25

Examples for dhotis

If you use Charkha only for limited hours daily you will get sufficient cloth for a dhoti.

The priest arose, bathed, opened the shrine, and found the kshir under the lappet of the god's dhoti.

The garment distinctive of the Hindus of all castes, men and women, all over India, is the dhoti or loin cloth.

Then he tore the strong border off his dhoti (loin cloth) and commenced to bind the handles of the doors together.

I have been trying to buy a few things—a sarong, which is a putso which is a dhoti; a pipe; and a "damned Malayan kris."

He was not one of our men, but a common ryot, clad simply in a dhoti or waist-cloth, and a rather dirty turban.

The small form of dhoti worn by men of the lower class is called langoti.

Dermot saw that the corpse was that of a low-caste Hindu, clad only in a dirty cotton koorta and dhoti.

In some parts of India half the dhoti only is wound round the loins, the other half being thrown over the left shoulder.

dhoti—a sheet of cloth worn round the lower limbs by Hindu males.

Word Value for dhotis
Scrable

9

Words with friends

8

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