kameez(e
(kæˈmiːz)
[Cf. camise.]
In S. Asian countries, a long shirt or blouse.
| 1955 [see shalwar]. 1966 J. & R. Godden Two under Indian Sun iii. 73 A coat and trousers instead of dhoti and kameeze. 1971 Femina (Bombay) 2 Apr. 51/2 An off-shoot of the same idea is a two-piece unit, basically a kameez and gharara, but the kameez-sleeves being of the same material as the gharara, extra colourful, while the body of the kameez itself is a plain dark self-colour. 1972 ‘E. Peters’ Death to Landlords! i. 21 She had taken to the shalwar and kameez of the Punjabi women. |