sherwani
Noun
Meaning
sherwani (plural sherwanis)
A knee-length coat that buttons to the neck, worn by man, over a shalwar kameez, in parts of India and Pakistan.
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Following US First Lady Melania Trump, US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka went Indian with an Anita Dongre sherwani made of silk from West Bengal.
Ivanka Trump wore a white sherwani made out of handwoven silk from West Bengal’s Murshidabad costing Rs 82,400.
In the frame, flanking Felicity Kendal and Jaffery, resplendent respectively in gown and sari, were two very swish gentlemen: in a sherwani, and Soumitra Chatterjee in a bandhgala, competing equally on the dapper-and-debonair stakes.