The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SARI
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More clues leading to the result SARI
- African prince turning up in shortened garment usually worn by women
- Garment sarts off small and rarely increases
- Gershwin's pulled up long garment
- It’s State Dress?
- Dress is taken back over a rip primarily
- Asian wearing this runs a risk unnecessarily to some extent
- Start to spin-dry daughter’s going away outfit
- Material deftly wrapped to cover Caesarian section
- Bit of tsarina’s dress
- Dress from Kashmir a shopper’s returned
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The straight part
We know that "Dress" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case dress = sari.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does SARI mean?
SARI noun- The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head.