dokhona
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[edit]Noun
[edit]dokhona (plural dokhonas)
- A traditional dress worn by women among the Bodo people of northeastern India.
- 2006, Wasbir Hussain, Homemakers Without the Men:
- Wearing a pale-yellow dokhona — the traditional wraparound dress of Bodo women — and a white blouse, Romel's wife Tillottama, 56, organized chairs for us in her courtyard.
- 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:
- He first saw Jutimala at the fair. Although she wore a dokhona, she didn't really look like a Bodo he thought.