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  • noun Plural form of bindi.

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Examples

  • She stands in a rug-covered room in comfy workout gear (and, okay, occasionally bindis and traditional Indian garb) with hair loose and leaps immediately into relatively simple Bollywood-inspired linked dance moves and exercises.

    Nora Zelevansky: Home Sweat Home Nora Zelevansky 2010

  • Women with bindis in the shape of Christmas trees appeared from behind a row of washers and began to twist, their flowing lehenga cholis fanning Amrita's hot face, Maang Tikas and Mama Chura bangles jingling.

    FISH/SEX excerpt (Pradesh) erik wennermark 2011

  • Women with bindis in the shape of Christmas trees appeared from behind a row of washers and began to twist, their flowing lehenga cholis fanning Amrita's hot face, Maang Tikas and Mama Chura bangles jingling.

    FISH/SEX excerpt (Pradesh) erik wennermark 2011

  • Ms. Kher has sculpted a life-sized elephant lying on the ground covered in bindis (the pigment applied to the forehead and representing the third eye).

    Liz Taylor's Legendary Violet Eyes 2010

  • Somehow these brave models make the plush tigers with bindis look positively unremarkable.

    Regretsy – Sigfried and Braveheart 2010

  • _ At Cydonia, meantime, Kapera is a "guest" of a secretive cult, the People-of-the-face-on-Mars, who wear face bindis, tiny 3-D faces, on their foreheads.

    Who Do You Say I Am 2010

  • I went last year and had to resist the urge to buy masses of fabric and bindis I could have spent a fortune.

    Edinburgh Festivals, 2009 Laura Anderson 2009

  • A beautiful silk sari from India with bonus bindis.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Gail 2009

  • A beautiful silk sari from India with bonus bindis.

    The Joy of Packages - Part 1 receiving Gail 2009

  • ETA: I have an awesomely weird question: Do they have bindis in Hay?

    silliness galore mikandra 2009

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