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pallu ‎(plural pallus)

(South Asia) The loose end of a sari. [from 19th c.]
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 45:
  She had pulled the pallu back over her head and her face.
- 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin 2014, p. 116:
  Dressed in a simple grey cotton sari, her head covered with the pallu, she sat on a platform behind a table with a microphone.

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