dhoti

[ doh-tee ]

/ ˈdoʊ ti /

a long loincloth worn by many Hindu men in India.

the cotton fabric, sometimes patterned, of which the loincloth is made.

Also dhoo·ti, dhoo·tie, dhu·ti

[doo-tee] /ˈdu ti/.

Origin of dhoti

Borrowed into English from Hindi around 1615–25

He felt the blood trickling down his face; from time to time he wiped it away with the loose end of his dhoti.

In Clive's Command |Herbert Strang
Dermot saw that the corpse was that of a low-caste Hindu, clad only in a dirty cotton koorta and dhoti.

The Elephant God |Gordon Casserly
The priest arose, bathed, opened the shrine, and found the kshir under the lappet of the god's dhoti.

Chaitanya's Life And Teachings |Krishna das Kaviraja
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."

From Sea to Sea |Rudyard Kipling

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

Mr. Isaacs |F. Marion Crawford

dhoti

/ (ˈdəʊtɪ) /

a long loincloth worn by men in India

C17: from Hindi