Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A garment consisting of a rectangular piece of printed cloth tied loosely around the waist that is worn by Polynesians and especially Samoans.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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From the fact that each was attired in a new, snow-white lava-lava, Sheldon knew that they were recruits.
Chapter 18 2010
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Other blacks there were on board, from unheard-of far places, and when the white man spoke to them, they tore the long feather from Mauki's hair, cut that same hair short, and wrapped about his waist a lava-lava of bright yellow calico.
MAUKI 2010
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Otoo, moving about the house or trailing through the office, his wooden pipe in his mouth, a shilling undershirt on his back, and a four-shilling lava-lava about his loins.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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Otoo, moving about the house or trailing through the office, his wooden pipe in his mouth, a shilling undershirt on his back, and a four-shilling lava-lava about his loins.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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Old Oti's pride had been touched, for he suddenly stripped down his lava-lava and showed me the unmistakable scar of a bullet.
YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010
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The captain, slouch-hatted and barelegged, with a rolling twist hitched the faded blue lava-lava tighter around his waist and spat tobacco juice overside.
A SON OF THE SUN 2010
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Then he turned his attention to the three house-boys, cornering Ornfiri in the kitchen and rushing him against the hot stove, stripping the lava-lava from Lalaperu when that excited youth climbed a veranda-post, and following Viaburi on top the billiard - table, where the battle raged until Joan managed a rescue.
Chapter 8 2010
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I married and my standard of living rose; but Otoo remained the same old-time Otoo, moving about the house or trailing through the office, his wooden pipe in his mouth, a shilling undershirt on his back, and a four-shilling lava-lava about his loins.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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Charley marries and has children, and Otoo "remained the same old-time Otoo, moving about the house or trailing through the office, his wooden pipe in his mouth, a shilling undershirt on his back, and a four-shilling lava-lava about his loins."
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Unless he gits 2 go baer footz an waer a lava-lava!
OMG! SLOW DOWN! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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