Meanings
nounpunjum (countable and uncountable, plural punjums)
plural punjums · alternative panjam · alternative panjum · alternative punjam
- countableuncountableA kind of longcloth from India.
But really I have never heard that the up-country vrouwen were in such a violent hurry for baftas and punjums but what the ox-wagons and local stores there could keep them supplied.
1968, R[alph] N[ixon] Currey, editor, Letters and Other Writings of a Natal Sheriff, Thomas Phipson 1815-76, Cape Town: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 171
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