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, 30 twisted it until the flow of blood was stopped.
From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell
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
Lloyd’s costume, in which he looks remarkably well, consists of a striped flannel shirt and a pareu.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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 Frederick O'Brien
