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  • noun Plural form of loincloth.

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Examples

  • Who doesn't like men in loincloths and swords .......

    Predators Screenwriters Hired for Masters of the Universe | /Film 2010

  • Bears in loincloths, furries, poledancing giraffes, exploding octopus bosoms, etc. View it here.

    Cat v. Monkey--absentee landlord slithytove 2007

  • I should imagine they find prospect of hunting wildebeest from Ham to Mortlake, clad only in loincloths made from recycled Focus leaflets, infinitely more exciting – certainly, a spot of fresh air is just what their pallid, muesli-fed children need.

    Lord Bonkers' Diary 2006

  • Patients included refugees from North and South Vietnam and the Montagnard, who usually arrived clad in loincloths with limbs that had been grotesquely damaged as a result of leprosy.

    Vietti, Eleanor A. 1962

  • Instead it may be possible that "loincloths" were one of those all-purpose articles of clothing, kind of like bandanas, so that when not need to gird the loins they could keep the hair in place.

    Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 1: A Loincloth 2002

  • Good * gosh*, I don't advocate going back to wearing loincloths and throwing rocks at game, but I'll quit before I'm hunched over a rifle saying; Nice deer, take the corn.

    Seven Reasons to Stop Baiting Whitetails Now 2009

  • They wore, most of them, no more than moccasins and loincloths, some not even that much, and they had coated themselves with bear grease—a defense against mosquitoes and biting flies, and against an enemy getting a solid grip during a tussle.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Peering out the window, Donovan made mental notes of the activity he saw along the way: convoys of trucks hauling cedar logs from the interior, workers by the hundreds toiling in muddy rice fields wearing only loincloths, small carts on the road drawn by women, even children, delivery wagons attached to rubber-tired bicycles, young Japanese men in kimonos playing baseball in makeshift fields.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • And ooh naked might burn .... hmm ok sunbathing with loincloths.

    Angels' Pawn is out! Psst...something cool in the post [Edited] Nalini Singh 2009

  • There were trade watches, clasp knives, amazing assortments of fish-hooks in packages, plug tobacco, matches, and gorgeous strips of cotton for loincloths all around.

    Bunches of Knuckles 2010

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