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• n  a long loincloth worn by Hindu men

• He was so insistent on absolute regularity in his daily regimen that he safety-pinned a watch to his homespun dhoti, synchronized with the clock at his ashram.
• A small boy in a tattered dhoti idly dawdled toe marks in the deep dust.
• I adopted the small dhoti two-foot-wide loin cloth then and there, and I have worn it ever since.