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

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

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 Hartwell, E. C. (Ernest Clark)

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

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