khadin.
/ˈkʌdi/, U.S. /ˈkɑdi/ Indian home-spun cotton cloth.
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1921 Glasgow Herald 27 Dec. 7 This tent will be made of hand-spun ‘khadder’.
1922 Glasgow Herald 22 Dec. 9 Delegates are already pouring into Neaya for the session of Congress that opens on December 26, and a huge marquee of khaddar (homespun) material has been erected.
1923 Daily Mail 23 Feb. 8 No person wearing clothes other than those made from ‘Khadder’—Mr. Gandhi's own favourite brand of hand-woven cloth—is tolerated in the ‘presence’.
1924 C. D. Groth tr. R. Rolland Mahatma Gandhi 72 Tagore, too, praised this khaddar, or khadi.
1925 E. S. Jones Christ of Indian Road v. 116 The whole city was dressed in white home-spun khaddar, the sign of the Nationalist.
1936 J. Nehru Autobiogr. xv. 106 Khadi clothes and third-class railway travelling demand little money.
1960 A. Koestler Lotus & Robot 278 The produce of the cotton mills is cheaper than homespun khadi.
1971 Illustr. Weekly India 18 Apr. 6 He alighted, this huge khadder-clad mountain of a man, his eyes alert and smiling.
1974 New Yorker 3 June 28/2 Gandhi called on all Indians..to raise cotton and to spin and weave it, so that there would be no shortage of khadi, or homespun cloth.
1975 Bangladesh Times 22 July 5/2 There may be easily manageable industries such as handloom, Khadi, village industries, handicrafts, [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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