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  • noun Plural form of longyi.

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Examples

  • Some wore green camouflage fatigues and were armed with M-16s and AK-47s; most were in T-shirts and traditional skirts, or longyis.

    Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008

  • Some wore green camouflage fatigues and were armed with M-16s and AK-47s; most were in T-shirts and traditional skirts, or longyis.

    Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008

  • Some wore green camouflage fatigues and were armed with M-16s and AK-47s; most were in T-shirts and traditional skirts, or longyis.

    Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008

  • Presumably minus the soldiers and men in longyis grabbing your suitcase and then demanding "tea money."

    Hanna Ingber Win: Leaving for Ethiopia, with Piles of Cash 2009

  • One young woman proffering bright blue, red and green longyis, or Myanmar-style sarongs, said she hadn't sold anything all day.

    Lost Hope: Once Glittering, Yangon 2008

  • You gave me presents of gold bangles and silk longyis from

    Burmese Days 2002

  • His feet — squat, high-arched feet with the toes all the same length — were bare, and so was his cropped head, and he wore one of those vivid Arakanese longyis with green and magenta checks which the Burmese wear on informal occasions.

    Burmese Days 2002

  • And I must go back to my village, with no money, with all my jewels and silk longyis gone, and the people will point and say,

    Burmese Days 2002

  • They had told me how much they had paid for their longyis, how much their shirts cost; I turned the conversation to politics for, since the textile industry is nationalized and all the prices are determined by the government, surely this was a political matter.

    Burma 1971

  • They had told me how much they had paid for their longyis, how much their shirts cost; I turned the conversation to politics for, since the textile industry is nationalized and all the prices are determined by the government, surely this was a political matter.

    Burma 1971

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