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
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
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
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 Frederick O'Brien
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
