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Example sentences for "cotton thread"

  • The tali is suspended from a necklet of gold or silver instead of cotton thread, but this is afterwards changed to cotton for fear of offending the god Karuppan.

  • A cotton thread, dyed with turmeric, is tied round her neck by a married woman, and, if she herself is married, she puts on glass bangles.

  • Before the tali is tied, the contracting couple go through the sadangu ceremony, in which a loop of cotton thread is passed over them from head to foot, without touching them.

  • Round each pot a cotton thread is wound five times.

  • A cotton thread is passed round the square, and round the centre kalasam another thread, one end of which is held by the family guru, and the other by the bridegroom who sits opposite to him.

  • On it some rice and myrabolam fruit are laid, and tied up with rolls of cotton thread by the Desari.

  • At the four corners, a row of five pots is placed, and the pots are covered with leafy twigs of Calotropis procera, which are tied with Calotropis fibre or cotton thread.

  • A cotton thread string, with cowries strung on it, is one of the insignia of a Madiga Matangi.

  • Round the hill they wind five turns of cotton thread, and return home.

  • On the following day, cotton thread is passed round the necks of three brass vessels, and also round the head of the bridegroom, who sits before the vessels with hands folded, and betel leaves stuck between his fingers.

  • Cotton thread, then more commonly a three-ply variety, had a glazed finish and was wiry.

  • The finest kind of cotton thread or silk can be used.

  • The Story of Cotton Thread (New York, The Spool Cotton Company, 1933).


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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