saafa
Noun
A headscarf or long cloth used to form a turban in parts of India.
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She tried to do things for him, get his slippers, fetch his saafa, button his kurta, dry his wet hair after a bath.
For years, she has been wrapping the traditional Rajasthani headgear, the saafa or pagdi, for the local deity Ghanghor.
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‘Fashion is tangible; it can't be understood just by looking at it,' he would say admonishingly, pulling off a sari from here, a saafa from there and turning them around to show their undersides.
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