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
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
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 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
