pagne

American  

[pan-y^uh] / ˈpan jə /

noun

• pagnes
  plural

1. a garment worn by some African peoples, consisting of a rectangular strip of cloth fashioned into a loincloth or wrapped on the body so as to form a short skirt.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• pagnes
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of pagne

1690–1700; < French < Spanish paño cloth ≪ Latin pannum

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Example Sentences

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pagne pagnes

Many of the women wore dresses and skirts made of pagne, a wax print fabric, featuring images of Francis or other religious symbols.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

Many of the women wore dresses and skirts made of pagne, a wax print fabric featuring images of Francis or other religious symbols.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

Nzole is the double-sized pagne that wraps around two people at once.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Aunt Elisabet draped around our shoulders the traditional marriage cloth called nzole, a beautiful double-sized pagne that symbolizes the togetherness of marriage.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

One mother was in a gorgeous red- and-green pagne wrap, her sons drowning in suits whose shoulder pads hung around their elbows.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

Anatole wrapped me up in wax-print pagnes, hoping to disguise me as a Congolese matron while trying to keep me from staggering dazed in front of automobiles.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The women wrap and rewrap their pagnes in the same way, and press the palm-oil harvest in the same kind of contraption that Mama Lo used.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

There was a sudden colorful bustle through the church as women in their bright pagnes began to move about.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Mostly young children and women with their pagnes in tatters, they come soundlessly out of the forest, landing here as lightly as weary butterflies after years of fleeing the war.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

I could just imagine them getting home, folding this uniform, and wrapping themselves in pagnes before going to the market.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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