noun
Meaning 1
Any of genus Guzmania, of tufted airplants.
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noun
Any of genus Guzmania, of tufted airplants.
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noun
A kind of coarse cotton cloth.
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Usage: India, archaic, countable, uncountable
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History
From the genus name,
From Persian [Term?] and Hindi गज़ी (gazī). Possibly connected to guz/gaz, the fabric having been made a guz in length.