breechcloth
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Now, angered by the acute textile shortage that grips the nation, villagers greeted her by appearing in plain breechcloth instead of their usual sarongs and saris.
From Time Magazine Archive
For centuries, the nomadic Masai tribesmen have loped like lions across their vast grazing plains near Mount Kilimanjaro, wearing nothing much more confining than a breechcloth of calico.
From Time Magazine Archive
How the English will stare at him with his deerskin breechcloth and bare chest!
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
In fact, he wears no mantle even in the cold weather, only leggings and breechcloth.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
For clothing they wear only a breechcloth, like an apron, and their faces and shoulders are oiled with something that gives their skin a deep reddish color.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Thatch roofs were giving way to tin, while shorts and T shirts were replacing breechcloths and feathers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Australian aborigines wore only breechcloths, their bodies painted in geometric patterns of dots and streaks.
From Time Magazine Archive
A score or more of warriors, naked save for breechcloths, stood around in a hostile circle.
From Kid Wolf of Texas by Powers, Paul S. (Paul Sylvester)
Blocking the light were two figures, Ifugao guards, clad only in breechcloths.
From The Golden Skull by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
Cloth for breechcloths is measured by the length of the forearm, being wound about the elbow and through the hand, quite as one coils up a rope.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Jenks, Albert Ernest
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