A variant spelling or regional name for a type of scarf, shawl, or head covering used in South Asian dress traditions.
Related to 'chunari' and other South Asian textile terms, derived from Sanskrit roots. The '-ri' or '-ari' suffix commonly indicates feminine or cloth-related items in Indian languages.
Chundari, chunari, and related spellings show how English struggled to standardize transliterations from Hindi and Urdu—colonial writers spelled the same garment different ways depending on regional dialects and their own phonetic guesses, which is why fashion historians can find multiple names for identical objects.
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