Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A strip of cloth worn around the loins.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A piece of stuff, skin, or other material worn as clothing about the loins, or more exactly about the hips.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A cloth covering for the loins, worn around the hips; -- sometimes worn in tropical areas as the only article of clothing.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a garment that provides covering for the loins
Examples
“Anyone who's got the stones to walk around a European convention center wearing little more than a fur loincloth is okay in my book.”
“He goes on to make this beautiful statement: A loincloth is something put on the body.”
“This time the rubber tail is thinner and more flexible than Jake's, and also the loincloth is shorter, so sitting poses are less of a chore to achieve.”
“One guy was kneeling with his drawn bow, and on his loincloth was a swastika design.”
“But for my part the loincloth was the main reason to hire him.”
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“There were about a hundred and fifty men, all rather eerily the same size, all of them wearing nothing but a white garment that could only be described as a loincloth.”
“The point was that since classes as disparate as actors and women wore a 'loincloth' the chances are that others did too.”
“I must warn you all that I've been slightly discombobulated all day, so much so at times that a discussion about whether "crotch pants" could serve as a synonym for "loincloth" or in fact was a word at all.”
“These well-preserved examples all differ from our "loincloth" in a number of ways, which may be due to time differences -- Tomb 9 probably dates to the Middle Kingdom -- but it may also have to do with where it was made.”
Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 1: A Loincloth
“Although we found the coarser "loincloth" and pieces of the fine leather in close proximity, we can see no evidence that they were part of the same garment.”
Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 1: A Loincloth
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘loincloth’.
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... as in "by James Joyce"
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Below the Belt
Anything worn from the waist down.
chausses, pantaloons, britches, trossers, buckskins, chaps, galligaskins, gregs, gaskins, breeches, knee breeches, knee pants and 93 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 145
abandon, headquarters, lambada, association, catch on, sort, primal, deep-seated, sticky, rightful, technically, close and 55 more...
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Fashion for Poets
Colorful & fun fashion terms
organza, grommet, velveteen, romper, frock, biketards, boning, tankini, décolleté, crepe de chine, crinkle cotton, fishtail train and 66 more...
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