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

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

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

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

He came before his judge elegantly dressed, for, besides a red pareu about his middle, he wore a pink silk shawl over his shoulders.

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