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- noun Plural form of
waistcloth .
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Examples
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One evening after the village elders retired, the dancers slipped off their waistcloths for a moment, but even that struck La Farge as “innocent and childish.”
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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After the usual beginning, the pai-pai dancers soon pretended that their waistcloths were about to fall off.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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After the usual beginning, the pai-pai dancers soon pretended that their waistcloths were about to fall off.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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One evening after the village elders retired, the dancers slipped off their waistcloths for a moment, but even that struck La Farge as “innocent and childish.”
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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She wore the plainest of waistcloths and only a single bone ornament in her hair, and her face was somber as she shifted her gaze from her father to her betrothed.
Conan and The Gods of The Mountain Green, Roland 1993
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They blindfolded each other with strips torn from their waistcloths, or whatever else they had.
Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916) Nikolai Velimirovi�� 1918
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There is a group of women, with waistcloths only, standing on a half-submerged tree trunk in greenish water washing clothes, one stands the others squat, and beyond are cattle and bamboos.
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The reapers were in groups and lines in the greenish corn, the men bronze and bare to the waistcloths, the women in many-coloured draperies, Ruths and reapers and Boazes by the dozen, with the women's bangles gleaming, and the men's sickles glittering in the cheerful sunlight.
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So all fell to; and though there was comparatively little to be done, the ship having been kept as far as could be in fighting order all night, yet there was "clearing of decks, lacing of nettings, making of bulwarks, fitting of waistcloths, arming of tops, tallowing of pikes, slinging of yards, doubling of sheets and tacks."
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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He was fond of the red flowers and the blue sky; and when the rest of the Indians went out to hunt in waistcloths of skin he put on his fringed leggings all heavy with blue beads, and painted red rings and stripes on his face, till he was as gay as the earth and the sky himself.
Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 Various 1865
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