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
All were garlanded with gold and crimson and orange flowers, while each wore about the hips a scarlet pareu.
From The Cruise of the Snark by London, Jack
When at home he wore only a pareu, but he would put on trousers when he went out.
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
At last, wrapping a pareu about me, I went down my trail to the valley road.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick
