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

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

Garbed in brilliant yellow pareu, he bore on his shoulders an immense kooka, or basket of cocoanut fiber, filled with quite two hundred pounds of breadfruit.

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

I made a tourniquet of a strip of my pareu and, with a small harpoon, twisted it until the flow of blood was stopped.

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