A type of flat, somewhat coarse fabric or textile, often used for simple clothing or furnishings in South Asian regions.
From Hindi 'chandu' or related South Asian language terms for coarse cloth. The word reflects trade vocabulary that entered English through contact with Indian textile merchants during the colonial period.
Chandul represents how English absorbed hundreds of textile terms from Hindi, Persian, and other languages—words like 'cotton,' 'khaki,' 'denim,' and 'shawl' tell the story of how trade networks literally wove foreign languages into English.
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