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n. - A piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma.

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  • Prime Minister Lt.Gen. Thein Sein, shedding his military uniform for the sarong-like "longyi" and traditional jacket, said international aid "with no strings attached"...
  • He remembered a blue longyi here, a pair of ruby ear-rings there, but hardly a face or a name.
  • During our conversation, he sat erect and cross-legged on a raised platform, wearing a longyi.
  • How can I go to the bazaar without my bangles, and wearing the same longyi over and over again?
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