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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maro

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

The dress of the men generally consists only of a piece of thick cloth called the maro, about ten or twelve inches broad, which they pass between the legs, and tie round the waist.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

Nothing would serve him but to carry it ashore on this occasion, and to give it to Waheiadooa, to be by him forwarded to Otoo, in order to its being added to the royal maro.

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

About six or eight inches square of the maro was unornamented, there being no feathers upon that space, except a few that had been sent by Waheiadooa, as already mentioned.

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

In English Romany it is softened into maro or morro. 

From Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement by Smith, George