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Examples
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But of greater concern to researchers are religious powders like cherry-colored "sindoor"
ABC News: ABCNews 2010
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Here I would like to add that this is the most classic form of garments that we love to see and the 'sindoor' (red vermillion) and accessories the way she has put up the whole thing made the collection so colourful and vibrant, "said Bhagat.
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Married women play with 'sindoor' and pray for long lives of our husbands, "said Kalpana Saha, another Devotee from Kolkata.
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We pray to the red-colored one, whose entire body is red, and who is decorated with red colored sindoor.
Archive 2009-08-01 photographerno1 2009
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On Sunday, Manyata deliberately showed up at a event teeming with media, with sindoor in her maang.
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The red kumkum powder or sindoor which contains turmeric is used to worship Goddess Parvati.
Bindi 2007
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Since centuries, the bindi has been and still remains, the mangalaya or the sign of an Indian married woman, other ones being the sindoor, mangalsutra (also called ramnami) nose ring, bangles and so on.
Bindi 2007
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Bangalore: If your child ingests Indian spices and ceremonial powders like vermilion, or sindoor, you need to be aware of the fact that these spices contain a very high level of lead to the tune of 67 percent which is much above the permitted levels by European Union and U.S. Foods and Drugs Administration.
SiliconIndia.com 2010
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Bangalore: If your child ingests Indian spices and ceremonial powders like vermilion, or sindoor, you need to be aware of the fact that these spices contain a very high level of lead to the tune of 67 percent which is much above the permitted levels by European Union and U.S. Foods and Drugs Administration.
SiliconIndia.com 2010
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Other - Beauty & Style yes,i also use to put sindoor on my forehead,even being non-Hindu
madmouth commented on the word sindoor
vermillion powder worn in the hair parting by Hindu wives (it is applied during the marriage ceremony). see here
May 24, 2009