"poonam" meaning in All languages combined

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "poonams",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "poonam (plural poonams)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "Indian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Clothing",
          "orig": "en:Clothing",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003 November, Priti Ramamurthy, “Material Consumers, Fabricating Aubjects: Perplexity, Global Connectivity Discourses, and Transnational Feminist Research”, in Cultural Anthropology:",
          "text": "She went on to explain, \"Now only old women wear those coarse cotton saris, control cheeralu [cheeralu is the Telugu word for saris]. They are like gunnysacks. Poonams are modern. They are brightly colored and do not fade. But they cling to the body, and you need a separate underskirt and blouse to wear them.\" Still later she added, \"What else will we wear? We work in the field all day -- in the sun, in the rain. Poonams don't tear. They don't fade. They don't crumple. Dirt and mud just wash away. they dry easily.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Wilma Dunaway, Gendered Commodity Chains, →ISBN, page 64:",
          "text": "Egged on by their sisters-in-law, two widows gaily dressed themselves in the polyester saris they were not supposed to wear because poonams are considered too bright, too colorful, too clingy, and, all in all, just too sexy for widows, who are desexualized in the normative gender order.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Leela Fernandes, Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Shantamma, a Dalit smallholder, once said to me, “People like us, people like you, everyone wears poonams (polyester saris) these days”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sari made of imported polyester, as opposed to a traditional cotton sari."
      ],
      "id": "en-poonam-en-noun-RJqx1F7z",
      "links": [
        [
          "sari",
          "sari"
        ],
        [
          "polyester",
          "polyester"
        ],
        [
          "traditional",
          "traditional"
        ],
        [
          "cotton",
          "cotton"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India) A sari made of imported polyester, as opposed to a traditional cotton sari."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "punim"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "poonam"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "poonams",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "poonam (plural poonams)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "punim"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Indian English",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Clothing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003 November, Priti Ramamurthy, “Material Consumers, Fabricating Aubjects: Perplexity, Global Connectivity Discourses, and Transnational Feminist Research”, in Cultural Anthropology:",
          "text": "She went on to explain, \"Now only old women wear those coarse cotton saris, control cheeralu [cheeralu is the Telugu word for saris]. They are like gunnysacks. Poonams are modern. They are brightly colored and do not fade. But they cling to the body, and you need a separate underskirt and blouse to wear them.\" Still later she added, \"What else will we wear? We work in the field all day -- in the sun, in the rain. Poonams don't tear. They don't fade. They don't crumple. Dirt and mud just wash away. they dry easily.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Wilma Dunaway, Gendered Commodity Chains, →ISBN, page 64:",
          "text": "Egged on by their sisters-in-law, two widows gaily dressed themselves in the polyester saris they were not supposed to wear because poonams are considered too bright, too colorful, too clingy, and, all in all, just too sexy for widows, who are desexualized in the normative gender order.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Leela Fernandes, Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Shantamma, a Dalit smallholder, once said to me, “People like us, people like you, everyone wears poonams (polyester saris) these days”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sari made of imported polyester, as opposed to a traditional cotton sari."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sari",
          "sari"
        ],
        [
          "polyester",
          "polyester"
        ],
        [
          "traditional",
          "traditional"
        ],
        [
          "cotton",
          "cotton"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India) A sari made of imported polyester, as opposed to a traditional cotton sari."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "poonam"
}