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
The pareu is no more or less than a large figured blue and white cotton window curtain twisted about the waist, and hanging a little below the bare knees.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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 O'Brien, Frederick
Her scarlet pareu and necklace of red peppers added color to a picture that struck me at once as bizarre and memorable.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick
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 O'Brien, Frederick
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
