waistcloth

American  

[wayst-klawth, -kloth] / ˈweɪstˌklɔθ, -ˌklɒθ /

noun

• waistcloths
  plural

1. a loincloth.

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waistcloth British  

/ ˈweɪstˌklɒθ /

noun

1. obsolete another word for loincloth

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• waistcloths
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of waistcloth

First recorded in 1605–15; waist + cloth

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Example Sentences

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waistcloth waistcloths

A married woman is buried in a kay-ĭn′, a particular skirt made for Page 80burial in Titipan, and a white blue-bordered waistcloth or la-ma.

From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks

Here, take this dollar, and tie it up in the corner of your waistcloth.

From The Call Of The South 1908 by Louis Becke

A cotton waistcloth of many yards in length is swathed about the loins, and a pair of very wide loose trousers, termed senáphil, hang barely to the knee.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris

He detached the bag, the waistcloth and moccasins, and calling to his comrades retreated farther into the forest.

From The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

A man, before now, has, as he rode, unwound his waistcloth, and twisted it round his horse's neck, for further security against the saddle's slipping back.

From In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory

Women and girls in waistcloths, busy preparing food from pandanus fruit, dropped their work when they caught sight of us, and rushed away for more clothes!

From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by C. Boden Kloss

She was a straight, black-looking craft, with a handsome billet, low, thin bulwarks, and waistcloths secured to ridge-ropes.

From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

Then he come up—his long pennant trailing overside—his waistcloths and netting tore all to pieces where the Spanishers had grappled, and his sides black-smeared with their gun-blasts like candle-smoke in a bottle.

From Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling

They were led by youths clad in finely-fringed waistcloths in which to do the sacrifice, while boys carried the wine for the libations in gold and silver vessels.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart

There is a group of women, with waistcloths only, standing on a half-submerged tree trunk in greenish water washing clothes, one stands the others squat, and beyond are cattle and bamboos.

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch

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