Etymology

tou-tu

Mandarin 兜肚
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  1. Mandarin · borrowed from兜肚
  2. English todaytou-tu

From the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin 兜肚 (dōudù, literally “[item] covering the belly”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.