Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A garment consisting of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is worn by men and women in Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Pacific islands.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A garment used in the Indian archipelago, consisting of a piece of cloth which envelops the lower part of the body: worn by both sexes.
- n. Hence The cotton cloth generally used for this garment, especially the printed cotton imported from Europe, to which the name has been given as a trade designation.
Wiktionary
- n. A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is commonly worn by men and women in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, and the Pacific islands.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a loose skirt consisting of brightly colored fabric wrapped around the body; worn by both women and men in the South Pacific
Etymologies
- From Malay sarung. (Wiktionary)
- Malay (kain) sarong, covering (cloth), sarong. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I dressed up with my limited resources as a Hawaiian girl, though I think I ended up more tribal given that my sarong is covered in elephants.”
“The arrangement of the sarong is simply this reversed, with the advantage that walking is not impeded.”
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
“In this country part, I see some ladies take the morning stroll in sarong and kabia, and I must confess I envy them, they look so lightly clothed and comfortable; and when the eye is accustomed to the costume, it is really becoming.”
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
“We had not been half an hour on deck when the Dutch ladies appeared in sarong and kabia, looking greatly relieved in the light clothing.”
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
“There she was, looking much more at home in sarong and kabia than in her satin dress, working her way up a long line as in a country dance.”
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
“They also wear gold or silver pins in their hair, and the sarong is girt or held up by a clasp of enormous size, and often of exquisite workmanship, in the poorer class of silver, and in the richer of gold jeweled with diamonds and rubies.”
“And by the way, the sarong is a traditionally male garment in Sri Lanka, and males wear tubular and rectangular sarongs by many names throughout Asia and the south Pacific, and in the highlands of Scotland.”
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“Arthur C. Clarke wore them often, since in Sri Lanka the sarong is a purely male item of apparel.”
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“In Sri Lanka, the sarong is a make item of apparel, and men wear something like the sarong, tubular or rectangular, throughout much of southeast Asia, and most of the south Pacific.”
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“A sarong is a skirt made of a tube of cloth about three feet in diameter; you get into it and wrap it round your waist like a towel; the surplus material falling into pleats that permit free movement.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sarong’.
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Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Words from the songs of Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis
zugzwang, valhalla, montalvo, ishist, tritons, mosh, siam, llano del rio, protohuman, tumbleweeds, ludwigshafen, ballyhoos and 349 more...
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Morthalion's Words
supercilious, kvetch, kvass, splurge, erroneous, pugnacious, macabre, gauche, conglomerate, abyss, paraphernalia, kleptomania and 285 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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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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the worshipful company of haberdashers
NB: this list being not limited to haberdashery in the strictest sense, but also including items of the milliner's trade, the mercer's trade, and the tailor's trade, it is to be noted that I just r...
button, ribbon, damask, silk, satin, wool, gabardine, felt, trilby, haberdashery, velvet, linen and 138 more...
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Dresses!
maxi, mini, gown, A-line, sheath, cocktail, jumper, sundress, strapless, mermaid, little black dress, shift and 35 more...
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Dress Me Up, But Don't Dress Me Down
muslin, hennin, houndstooth, moccasin, paisley, aglet, stomacker, poncho, sarong, kilt, middy, camisole and 25 more...
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bilby Alternative spelling sarung as in the original Malay. I don't like the reference to South Pacific as sarong is definitely of Southeast Asian origin. Polynesians probably have their own traditional words for the equivalent garment. Also there is no particular requirement that sarongs be brightly coloured and I have a few myself that clearly aren't. 'Often brightly coloured' I could live with.
cheers,
B Nov 14, 2007