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  • noun Plural form of saree.

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Examples

  • My wife has 32 sarees and she used to get help to drape them, but now she can do it on her own.

    People don't Hold Back in India 2011

  • The girls, Vigneswari and Masiakanni, dressed up in traditional bridal finery -- gilded sarees and gold jewellery -- married the frog 'princes' in separate, elaborate ceremonies at two different temples in the presence of hundreds of villagers.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Do not buy too many expensive sarees, traditional outfits.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Anjali 2009

  • His factory, which makes garments used in sarees and burqas, employs 10 workers, typical of small scale industries in the state.

    Crisis in Punjab 2011

  • She too is not into sarees but then some occassion are meant to be ...

    Archive 2009-02-01 Anjali 2009

  • Do not buy too many expensive sarees, traditional outfits.

    Sabudana Vada Anjali 2009

  • The girls, Vigneswari and Masiakanni, dressed up in traditional bridal finery -- gilded sarees and gold jewellery -- married the frog 'princes' in separate, elaborate ceremonies at two different temples in the presence of hundreds of villagers.

    January 21st, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • Parivartan Sharma/Reuters A worker carried a pack of sarees through an alleyway in the old quarters of Delhi, Monday.

    India in Pictures 2011

  • She too is not into sarees but then some occassion are meant to be ...

    She is Special Anjali 2009

  • He decided to carry on his family's textile business by setting up a knitting factory to manufacture nylon and polyester cloth used in everything from linings for sarees to burqas to tablecloths and curtains.

    New India's Promise Eludes Punjab Youth Geeta Anand 2011

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