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pareu

[pahr-ay-oo] / ˈpɑr eɪˌu /
NOUN
loincloth
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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

As we approached them we were met by a sturdy Taaoan, bare save for the pareu and handsomely tattooed.

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

A figure of wretchedness she was, bent almost double, her withered, decrepit limbs clad in a ragged pareu and her lean arms clutching the stick that bore her weight.

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

Her scarlet pareu and necklace of red peppers added color to a picture that struck me at once as bizarre and memorable.

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

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 Frederick O'Brien




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