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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sindoor /ˈsɪndʊə/ (also sindur)

▶noun red pigment made from powdered red lead, applied as a dot on the forehead of married Hindu women.

– origin Hindi sindur, from Sanskrit sindura ‘red lead’.

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