dokhona

English

Noun

dokhona (plural dokhonas)

1. A traditional dress worn by women among the Bodo people of northeastern India.
   • 2006, Wasbir Hussain, Homemakers Without the Men:

     Wearing a pale-yellow dokhona — the traditional wraparound dress of Bodo women — and a white blouse, Romel's wife Tillottama, 56, organized chairs for us in her courtyard.

   • 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:

     He first saw Jutimala at the fair. Although she wore a dokhona, she didn't really look like a Bodo he thought.

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• akhoond