Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "அரைமுடி" in Tamil language version.
110 The term appears to literally mean 'loin (arai) cover (mudi)' 4,1 Winslow ( 1862) gives araimuti as 'a small plate of metal worn by little girls over the private parts'. Dubois (1906) who observed that the private parts of the children of the
{{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)Original from the University of Michigan Digitized Sep 3, 2008The children sometimes, to the age of ten years or more, go in a state of nudity, relieved perhaps by a piece of string round the waist which sustains the "araimudi" or heart-shaped piece of silver, which calls attention to what it purports to conceal.
{{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)Compiled by Henry Le Fanu Original from Oxford University Digitized Jun 6, 2007