thong

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Basically, the thong is a panty with full frontal coverage with a narrow piece of material for back coverage.

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  1. noun A narrow strip, as of leather, used for binding or lashing.
  2. noun A whip of plaited leather or cord.
  3. noun A sandal held on the foot by a strip that fits between the first and second toes and is connected to a strap usually passing over the top or around the sides of the foot.

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  • To play this game we had bolas, only the balls at the end of the thong were not of lead like those with which the grown-up gaucho hunter captures the real ostrich or rhea. —  Far Away And Long Ago
  • Basically, the thong is a panty with full frontal coverage with a narrow piece of material for back coverage. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • The front of this thong is a sophisticated throwback to an era when you'd have been hard pressed to find a woman who had ever seen a thong. —  Intimate Guide
  • He could not do it with a single shot, as the thong was broader than the bullet, but he had calculated that he might effect his purpose with several. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
  • Of the hide he carved a thong, very small and very long, the thong was not very broad, but as it were a thread of twine; when the thong was all slit, it was wondrously long, about therewith he encompassed a great deal of land. —  Roman de Brut. English
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English thwong.

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  1. from Middle English thong, thwong, thwang, from Anglo-Saxon thwang, thwong (= Icelandic thvengr), thong, latchet, especially of shoes, from thwingan (*thwang in preterit), constrain: see twinge.
  2. from Middle English thwongen; from thong, n.
 

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