breechcloth
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breechcloths
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Origin of 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
I have finally gotten tired of sweating in my slops and long-sleeved shirt during these games, and have let Kainta’s sister make me a buckskin breechcloth to wear.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
A young Osage man then typically wore fringed buckskin leggings and moccasins and a breechcloth; a finger-woven belt held his tobacco pouch and tomahawk.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
How the English will stare at him with his deerskin breechcloth and bare chest!
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
Women wear breechcloths during the three or four days of menstruation.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
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 Albert Ernest Jenks
Some of the other breechcloths are woven of cotton thread by the women.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
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