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
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 Frederick O'Brien
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 Jack London
Wrapped only in a gorgeous red pareu, I sat on the paepae of the chief's house, now become mine.
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
