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
Wrapped only in a gorgeous red pareu, I sat on the paepae of the chief's house, now become mine.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick
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 O'Brien, Frederick
He came before his judge elegantly dressed, for, besides a red pareu about his middle, he wore a pink silk shawl over his shoulders.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick
I made a tourniquet of a strip of my pareu and, with a small harpoon, 30 twisted it until the flow of blood was stopped.
From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by Hartwell, E. C. (Ernest Clark)
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