waistcloth
noun
a loincloth.
waistcloths
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pluralof waistcloth.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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There is a group of women, with waistcloths only, standing on a half-submerged tree trunk in greenish water washing clothes, one stands the others squat, and beyond are cattle and bamboos.
From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch
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
They were led by youths clad in finely-fringed waistcloths in which to do the sacrifice, while boys carried the wine for the libations in gold and silver vessels.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
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 William Henry Giles Kingston
On the following Sunday he attended service with about three hundred of his chiefs and retainers, all clad in waistcloths, for the missionaries had ordained that the outward sign of conversion should be clothes.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
