loins

• The conjecture immediately suggests itself that the girdle or string about the loins was anterior to any covering for the genitals. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• Round his loins was the skin of a wild beast, and at his side a broad short sword in a sheath; a sort of cross-bow hung at his back, with a quiver full of small arrows. —  In the Wilds of Africa
• Fomentations with warm water over the loins are always useful in calming the excitable conditions of the spinal cord, muscles, liver, and kidneys, and also in favoring secretion from the two latter. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• Their dress consists of a coarse stuff, very scanty (manufactured by the Sakarran Dyaks), reaching from the waist to the knee; around the waist they have rings of ratan, either black or red, and the loins are hung round with a number of brass ornaments made by their husbands. —  The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
• They have rings of brass or red bamboo about the loins, and sometimes ornaments on the arms; the hair is worn long; the ears of both sexes are pierced, and earrings of brass inserted occasionally; the teeth of the young people are sometimes filed to a point and discolored, as they say that "Dogs have white teeth." —  The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy

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