pareu

Example Sentences

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Wearing a varihued. skirtlike Tahitian pareu that he fancies, Bragg spent a happy hour emitting Tarzan yells and swinging from branch to branch.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wore only a pareu, and was tattooed from toenails to hair-roots.

From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick

She wore a blue pareu, and that was strange, for only old people, and few of them, wear any but the red or yellow loin-cloth.

From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick

Beneath it they wore a pareu, which passed twice around the waist and hung to the calves of the legs.

From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick

The pareu is no more or less than a large figured blue and white cotton window curtain twisted about the waist, and hanging a little below the bare knees.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis