Illustration of sari
variants
or less commonly saree
: a garment of southern Asian women that consists of several yards of lightweight cloth draped so that one end forms a skirt and the other a head or shoulder covering
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From there, the surface moved into denser embroidery and openwork, with the original sari’s sheer, lace-like quality still visible through the skirt and side draping.
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Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 10 May 2026
Such was the case for Elizabeth Bennett, who chose a pink sari and then a bright yellow Queens of Archive dress for her wedding to Saurabh Sathyashankar in India.
—Rebecca Cope, Vogue, 5 May 2026
Kumar's mother Subhawati arrived later, dressed in her best, brightly colored sari, gifted by her daughter.
—Diaa Hadid, NPR, 10 Apr. 2026
Before the third siren at seven o’clock Chitol parked his bicycle alongside hundreds of others like it, his identified by a faded yellow piece of his wife’s old sari around the handlebars, which doubled as a duster.
—Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
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Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 10 May 2026
Such was the case for Elizabeth Bennett, who chose a pink sari and then a bright yellow Queens of Archive dress for her wedding to Saurabh Sathyashankar in India.
—Rebecca Cope, Vogue, 5 May 2026
Kumar's mother Subhawati arrived later, dressed in her best, brightly colored sari, gifted by her daughter.
—Diaa Hadid, NPR, 10 Apr. 2026
Before the third siren at seven o’clock Chitol parked his bicycle alongside hundreds of others like it, his identified by a faded yellow piece of his wife’s old sari around the handlebars, which doubled as a duster.
—Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for sari
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“Sari.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sari. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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sari
noun
sa·ri
variants
also saree
: a garment worn by women in southern Asia that consists of a long cloth draped around the body and head or shoulder
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