loincloth

This isn’t only because, as Ms. Whitlum-Cooper and Ms. Tedbury write, Christ’s body is “vehemently real,” but also due to the verisimilitude of his loincloth and the “complex depths of its falls and folds.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

In Japan, the duo even tried their hand at sumo wrestling and Si remembers Dave had gone the extra mile to make sure he looked good in his loincloth.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024

The earliest form of underwear was a loincloth.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 9, 2024

“Parents wouldn’t stay, which was very auspicious for ‘Tarzan and His Mate,’” Del Toro says of the 1934 film that starred Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan wearing what was then considered a revealing loincloth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

“Right now he’s wetting his loincloth over what Monomatapa will do to him when he finds out.”

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Some of Saar’s leather necklaces are reminiscent of tribal loincloths, in a triangle shape that comes to a point, dyed and stitched in various colors.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

King Tut was actually entombed with 145 schenti, a large collection of loincloths to take with him to the underworld.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 9, 2024

Uozumi then rose to his feet, dusted himself off and rejoined the surrounding group of wrestlers wearing loincloths.

From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2023

On Bunce Island, a fortified outpost at the mouth of the Sierra Leone River, a visitor in the 1770s described white men playing golf attended by African caddies in tartan loincloths.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2020

The others wore loincloths and turbans and a few wore shirts, but as the day wore on they doffed their shirts, one by one, until all were as our men.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya