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• n  a pair of light loose trousers with a tight fit around the ankles; worn by women from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a kameez)

• I put on a salwar kameez and an Afghan-style turban.
• On the subcontinent splendid native dress-the sari, the salwar-kameez, the ghaghra-is still important, in part because of strong .
• The salwar-kameez, Muslim in origin, followed in its own way the '60s motto of less is more, by .

• shalwar

News & Articles

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• India, over fire: Anitha Pagidi of south Reno shares grilling traditions from her native land
  One recent evening, you would have been hard pressed in Northern Nevada to find a more glamorous griller than Anitha Pagidi, who hails from Chennai in southern India. She wore a hand-embroidered salwar kameez — a long tunic over loose trousers, both rendered in floaty celadon silk — as she tonged marinated chicken onto the grill: breast, wings, thighs, drumsticks.
  July 1, 2013 - Reno Gazette-Journal