breech-cloth

They wore nothing but a breech-cloth and perhaps a stovepipe hat, and held their already marked tickets in their hand.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

Then, naked saved for a black breech-cloth, his body smeared with oil and red earth-powder, he would face some heavy naked

The Plumed Serpent 2003

Huitzilopochtli stood watching two of their men, naked save for a breech-cloth and the scarlet feathers on their head, dancing the old spear-dance, whooping challenge in the firelight.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

He encouraged them to dance naked, with the breech-cloth, to rub themselves with the red earth-powder, over the oil.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

Stripped now to his breech-cloth, he slung his swordbelt across his massive chest so that his sword hung down his back, dagger and pouch beneath his left arm.

Conan The Triumphant Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

His attire consisted only of breech-cloth and leggins, with no covering for the upper part of his person -- a garb offering fewest obstructions to his movements through the forest.

The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance John Turvill Adams

He called the cleverest of his children, and bade it affix to his breech-cloth a plantain-leaf, dog's-tail-wise, and waggishly.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

The gaily-colored breech-cloth wound about his loins supported his bolo and small knives, and in his tightly knotted long hair, glistened

The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart

Naked but for a white cotton breech-cloth, a boy of about eighteen stepped out of the crowd and stood before him, his hands crossed over his chest, his head bowed.

Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932

He changed himself into a native in turban and breech-cloth, and very considerately conferred on me a temporary knowledge of the language.

The Mysterious Stranger; A Romance by Mark Twain [pseud.] with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. 1916