waistcloth
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Origin of waistcloth
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A married woman is buried in a kay-ĭn′, a particular skirt made for Page 80burial in Titipan, and a white blue-bordered waistcloth or la-ma.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Jenks, Albert Ernest
A waistcloth, Dogvane, if used fore and aft would be a suitable table for the Ten Commandments, which would thus be conveniently placed before the eyes of all.
From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Clynton, Richard
He was dressed in all the dignity of a woollen shirt, with a piece of fine "tapa" for a waistcloth, feet and legs bare.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Bullen, Frank T.
He ran to the pond hard by, soaked the end of his waistcloth in water, sprinkled it over the young Brahman, raised him from the ground, and placed him sitting against the wall.
From Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance by Burton, Isabel, Lady
He detached the bag, the waistcloth and moccasins, and calling to his comrades retreated farther into the forest.
From The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
They blindfolded each other with strips torn from their waistcloths, or whatever else they had.
From Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916) by Velimirović, Nikolai
Then he come up—his long pennant trailing overside—his waistcloths and netting tore all to pieces where the Spanishers had grappled, and his sides black-smeared with their gun-blasts like candle-smoke in a bottle.
From Rewards and Fairies by Kipling, Rudyard
Women and girls in waistcloths, busy preparing food from pandanus fruit, dropped their work when they caught sight of us, and rushed away for more clothes!
From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden
The men were dressed in waistcloths of blue cotton, hanging down behind, mostly bordered with red, blue, and white.
From In the Eastern Seas by Kingston, William Henry Giles
He answered, saying, "Almighty Allah from the beginning of mankind ordered the Archangel Gabriel to visit Eve and say to her, 'Spin for thyself and for Adam waistcloths wherewith ye may veil your persons.'"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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