pagri
pagri noun: a headdress worn by men in India, comprising a several-metre-long band of fabric wound around the head.
Noun
pagri (plural pagris)
- A headdress worn by men in India, comprising a several-metre-long band of fabric wound around the head.
- The poor labourer was at first somewhat astonished, and frightened by this sudden metamorphosis, but soon overcoming the new feeling, he carefully tied the ruby in his pagri or turban, and returned home […]1913, Shaikh Chilli, "The Story of Hira and Lal" in Folk-tales of Hindustan, Bahadurganj, Calcutta: Abinash Chandra Sarkar, p. 98, https://archive.org/details/cu31924023979721
- 'People look at my pagri and you can kind of tell from the way they look and behave and from their body language. My pagri gives me away and I feel that people react strangely to it. Some people laugh at you because of your pagri. Others say, "You are wearing a nice hat," or something like that....2005, Edith Samuel, Integrative Racism: South Asians in Canadian Academe, University of Toronto Press, page 89
- A puggry.
- I recognized the eldest Miss Copleigh, because she had a pagri round her helmet, and the younger had not.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “False Dawn”, in Plain Tales from the Hills
- A payment made to secure the long-term rental of a property.
- A pagri was a form of "illegal payment" that had developed to circumvent colonial rent restrictions. Landlords demanded a large lump-sum payment in lieu of the low monthly rent, and this also made it very difficult for refugees without means to rent houses in the city.2010, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, chapter 2, in The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories, New York: Columbia University Press, page 64
- Simply defined, it means a landlord letting a ‘tenant’ use his property – forever in most cases – after receiving a “pagri,” an amount that is a little less than the prevailing market price. In return, the tenant pays a nominal monthly rent and stays on the premises for years on end without any...2012 January 7, Kazim Alam, “Paperless pagri system still exists in old city areas”, in The Express Tribune
Examples of pagri in a sentence
- 'People look at my pagri and you can kind of tell from the way they look and behave and from their body language.2005, Edith Samuel, Integrative Racism: South Asians in Canadian Academe, University of Toronto Press, page 89:
- Simply defined, it means a landlord letting a ‘tenant’ use his property – forever in most cases – after receiving a “pagri,” an amount that is a little less than the prevailing market price.2012 January 7, Kazim Alam, “Paperless pagri system still exists in old city areas”, in The Express Tribune:
Synonyms of pagri
Forms of pagri
| plural | pagris |
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Origin of pagri
Borrowed from Hindustani पगड़ी (pagṛī) / پگڑی.
Words formed from pagri
Questions about pagri
- What does pagri mean?
- Pagri means a headdress worn by men in India, comprising a several-metre-long band of fabric wound around the head.
- How do you use pagri in a sentence?
- 'People look at my pagri and you can kind of tell from the way they look and behave and from their body language.
- What part of speech is pagri?
- Pagri is a noun.
- What is the plural of pagri?
- The plural of pagri is pagris.
Words near pagri in the dictionary
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