poonam
poonam noun: a sari made of imported polyester, as opposed to a traditional cotton sari.
Noun
poonam (plural poonams)
- A sari made of imported polyester, as opposed to a traditional cotton sari.
- She went on to explain, "Now only old women wear those coarse cotton saris, control cheeralu [cheeralu is the Telugu word for saris]. They are like gunnysacks. Poonams are modern. They are brightly colored and do not fade. But they cling to the body, and you need a separate underskirt and blouse to...2003 November, Priti Ramamurthy, “Material Consumers, Fabricating Aubjects: Perplexity, Global Connectivity Discourses, and Transnational Feminist Research”, in Cultural Anthropology
- Egged on by their sisters-in-law, two widows gaily dressed themselves in the polyester saris they were not supposed to wear because poonams are considered too bright, too colorful, too clingy, and, all in all, just too sexy for widows, who are desexualized in the normative gender order.2013, Wilma Dunaway, Gendered Commodity Chains, →ISBN, page 64
Proper noun capitalized: Poonam
Poonam
- A Hindu female given name from Hindi.
Forms of poonam
| plural | poonams |
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Origin of poonam
From Hindi पूनम (pūnam, “full moon”).
Questions about poonam
- What does poonam mean?
- Poonam means a sari made of imported polyester, as opposed to a traditional cotton sari.
- What part of speech is poonam?
- Poonam can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of poonam?
- The plural of poonam is poonams.
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