waistcloths
- plural of waistcloth.
Example Sentences
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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 Cooper, James Fenimore
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
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
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
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 Stewart, Aubrey
