sherwani

Borrowed from Urdu شیروانی (śervānī)/Hindi शेरवानी (śervānī), from the name of a town in Persia.

sherwani (plural sherwanis)

1. A knee-length coat that buttons to the neck, worn by men in parts of India and Pakistan. [from 20th c.]
   • 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 40:

     The band that leads the procession wears red-and-green sherwanis.

   • 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 283:

     Friom a distance, Komal secretly observes Lakshaya, dressed in a fitted maroon sherwani, carefully mount the decorated animal.

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