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Examples
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Eager to try the local techniques, Brian asked Nepal to help him make a gamcha (thin, Bangladeshi towel) hat so that he could carry the baskets of mud on his head like the locals.
Kristin Boekhoff: Ecopreneur: Four Weeks, Three Interns, Two Cows, and 120 Cubic Feet of Mud 2009
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Brian also told me that their white panjabis had been dyed red because my boua tied them in a red gamcha (towel) and the rain had soaked through.
Kristin Boekhoff: Ecopreneur: Never Let Them See You Sweat 2009
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A giant man with fether white dhoti and gamcha onhis shoulders performing evening prayers to river Ganges.
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They began to make other clothing items like gamcha and fabrics for boutique stores.
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Then the stranger told her to join the severed head to the body and cover it with the wet _gamcha_; and then, after waiting a little, to beat the body with the _meral_ twig.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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Then he bade her stop crying and go and wet a _gamcha_ he gave her and come straight back with it without looking behind her and then pick a _meral_ twig and beat the corpse with it.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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Distress jeans teamed with fitted t-shirts and a gamcha like scarf casually warped around the neck.
Screen News 2008
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_gamcha_ and went and dipped it in a pool but, as she was bringing it back, she heard a loud roaring behind her and she looked back to see what it was; so the stranger sent her back again to the pool and this time she did not look round though she heard the same roaring.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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