maro

American  

[mahr-oh] / ˈmɑr oʊ /

noun

1. a loincloth worn ceremonially by Maori and Tahitian men, consisting of a grass apron or a length of cloth wrapped around the waist and sometimes between the legs, traditionally made from flax fibers or tree bark.

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Example Sentences

It is at this part of the morai also that they first invest their kings with the maro.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert

In one of them, as we afterward found, was the royal maro; and the other, if I may be allowed the expression, was the ark of the Eatooa.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert

Their clothing consisted of the maro, a cloth worn round the waist; the chiefs having also a mantle of matting over their shoulders, while some wore feathers in their hair.

From The Cruise of the Dainty Rovings in the Pacific by Kingston, William Henry Giles

The priests made a long prayer, relative to this part of the ceremony; and, if I mistook not, they called it the prayer of the maro.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert

The women wear a petticoat of the same stuff as the maro, but wider and longer, without, however, reaching below the knees.

From Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific by Franchere, Gabriel