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
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 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
About his middle he wore a red and yellow pareu, and his naked body was like a small and perfect statue as he handled his tiny craft.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick
