pareu

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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

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 O'Brien, Frederick

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 O'Brien, Frederick

He wore only a pareu, and was tattooed from toenails to hair-roots.

From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick

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