Nehru jackets

A form of Nehru jacket — A hip-length tailored unisex coat with a mandarin collar, modelled on the South Asian achkan or sherwani and briefly popular in the West in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of Nehru jacket
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