waistcloth
noun
a loincloth.
waistcloths
-
pluralof waistcloth.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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 C. Boden Kloss
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 Rudyard Kipling
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
She was a straight, black-looking craft, with a handsome billet, low, thin bulwarks, and waistcloths secured to ridge-ropes.
From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper
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 Nikolai Velimirović
