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
Garbed in brilliant yellow pareu, he bore on his shoulders an immense kooka, or basket of cocoanut fiber, filled with quite two hundred pounds of breadfruit.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien
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
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
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