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
I made a tourniquet of a strip of my pareu and, with a small harpoon, 30 twisted it until the flow of blood was stopped.
From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell
He wore only a pareu, and was tattooed from toenails to hair-roots.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien
Lloyd’s costume, in which he looks remarkably well, consists of a striped flannel shirt and a pareu.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
