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

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

A figure of wretchedness she was, bent almost double, her withered, decrepit limbs clad in a ragged pareu and her lean arms clutching the stick that bore her weight.

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

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

At last, wrapping a pareu about me, I went down my trail to the valley road.

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