punjum

English

Noun

punjum (countable and uncountable, plural punjums)

1. A kind of longcloth from India.
   • 1968, R[alph] N[ixon] Currey, editor, Letters and Other Writings of a Natal Sheriff, Thomas Phipson 1815-76, Cape Town: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 171:

     But really I have never heard that the up-country vrouwen were in such a violent hurry for baftas and punjums but what the ox-wagons and local stores there could keep them supplied.

Alternative forms

• panjam, panjum, punjam