Chooda
The red and ivory (now often white) bangles a Punjabi bride wears for the first months of marriage.
Also: chura, choora, wedding bangles
Chooda is a set of twenty-one or more bangles, traditionally red and ivory, that the bride's maternal uncle gives her before a Punjabi wedding. The family dips them in milk, rose water and flowers and puts them on at dawn, with the bride's eyes closed so that she does not see the bangles until the wedding. She wears them for forty days to a year, depending on family custom. At the kalire ceremony, her unmarried friends have golden ornaments tied to the bangles, and she shakes them down over their heads.
Region: South Asia