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

Beneath it they wore a pareu, which passed twice around the waist and hung to the calves of the legs.

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

I made a tourniquet of a strip of my pareu and, with a small harpoon, twisted it until the flow of blood was stopped.

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

Mr. Pottle's eyes fell on his own scarlet pareu and the brownish legs beneath it.

From The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales by Connell, Richard