pareu
Americannoun
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Also pareo a length of cloth, especially of a brightly colored print, wrapped on the body like a lavalava and worn by women as a cover-up, skirt, dress, or the like.
noun
Etymology
Origin of pareu
Borrowed into English from Tahitian around 1855–60
Example Sentences
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Wearing a varihued. skirtlike Tahitian pareu that he fancies, Bragg spent a happy hour emitting Tarzan yells and swinging from branch to branch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her scarlet pareu and necklace of red peppers added color to a picture that struck me at once as bizarre and memorable.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien
All were garlanded with gold and crimson and orange flowers, while each wore about the hips a scarlet pareu.
From The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London
I made a tourniquet of a strip of my pareu and, with a small harpoon, twisted it until the flow of blood was stopped.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien
Lloyd’s costume, in which he looks remarkably well, consists of a striped flannel shirt and a pareu.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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