sinh

Definition

A traditional tube skirt worn by Lao and Thai women, particularly northern Thai and northeastern Thai women.

Etymology

Borrowed from Lao ສິ້ນ (sin) or Thai ซิ่น (sîn).

Example Sentences

• "These dancers with their graceful upright carriage, their dreamy distant expressions and their party sins (the women were wearing sins made of brightly-coloured silk woven in squares and broad stripes and usually worn by men) were infinitely more appealing than the younger dancers and the electronic band but, as Darachit was fond of saying and without apparent regret, 'Les traditions ne sont plus respectees.""
• "The only enforced dress codes now [in Laos] are for female public servants who continue to wear the sinh, though outside of work they can wear what they like."
• "After the change in regime of 1975, every woman seen in public was wearing a sin, as this was part of a dresscode favoured by the new socialist government."