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I don’t actually use a blanket, just my lunghi, which is like the male skirt thing here.
In Training Adam Kaswiner 2006
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I don’t actually use a blanket, just my lunghi, which is like the male skirt thing here.
Archive 2006-03-01 Adam Kaswiner 2006
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For Hossain, who wears only a "lunghi" cloth wrapped around his waist, it means an end of the eight-month season during which he and the families of his four children paddled two rickety bamboo houseboats across the vast delta.
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Though they have ways of dealing with the more bitter "lunghi", Italians naturally prefer to work with the ones grown as
The Big Apple 2008
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Mr. Indhagel, wearing a white turban and a red India-made lunghi, a traditional cloth skirt, said he has been approached often to head out in skiffs seeking victims.
Somalia Schools Its Former Pirates Abdinasir Mohamed 2010
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La ricetta è davvero invitante, pansavo dapprima che venisse utilizzata pasta sfoglia già stesa... e invece no : poi che ci fossero dei tempi di preparazione lunghi... e invece no!
Cornetti friabili allo yogurt di Anna Moroni Orchidea 2009
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Questi i vostri lunghi silenzi, questa la vostra lunqa assenza mi divengono noiosa.
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He pointed to it, and reined in his horse, then snatching the white _lunghi_ from his head, stood up in his stirrups uncovered before his followers, and called upon them in the name of God and the Prophet to drive the cursed Kaffirs from the country of the faithful.
Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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A mile or two out, there lies what used to be his farm, explains Pyke, a wiry man in a vest and wraparound "lunghi."
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Out on the shallowest part of the lagoon, men in thigh-high rubber waders seem almost to walk on the water, plunging their hands deep into the mud in search of vongole and cappi lunghi, highly prized razor clams.
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