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
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
She wore a blue pareu, and that was strange, for only old people, and few of them, wear any but the red or yellow loin-cloth.
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
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
