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

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

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

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 Hartwell, E. C. (Ernest Clark)

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