kalgi
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A black heron feather that is worn on a turban as a symbol of nobility.
Indian usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
An ornament worn on the front of a turban as a symbol of status.
Indian usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
A prisoner of war taken by the native Alaskan Alutiiq people and kept as a slave.
noun
One of a set of conjoined igloos that form an apartment-like arrangement.
Example Sentences
- "The herons of Kashmir were the main source of supply of feathers which were in great demand for plumes (Kalgis) worn by the Sikh Ministers, Officers of high ranks and other men of importance."
- "But on turban they painted peacock feathers in place of kalgi and sometimes half bloomed lotus with all the decoration of jewellery and pearls."
- "[…] Singh during the founding of the Khalsa in 1699 show him dressed like royalty of the times: a round turban with a plume or kalgi, a cummerbund (kamar kassa), carrying a silver arrow, stirring the Amrit with a double-edged sword."
- "Ranjit Singh is seen in this image wearing a highly decorated turban with three kalgis or plumes and several different jewels and ornaments."
- "When the question of kalgi and its whereabouts arose, Archer candidly stated that he could not find any kalgi with Lady Broun Lindsay , a descendant of Lord Dalhousie from whom the weapons of Guru Gobind Singh were acquired and nor was it in the Victoria and Albert Museum."
- "Shah Jahan's aesthetics transformed the heron's feather into the extravagantly jewelled kalgi."