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
At last, wrapping a pareu about me, I went down my trail to the valley road.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien
Mr. Pottle's eyes fell on his own scarlet pareu and the brownish legs beneath it.
From The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales by Richard Connell
A figure of wretchedness she was, bent almost double, her withered, decrepit limbs clad in a ragged pareu and her lean arms clutching the stick that bore her weight.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien
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
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