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pareu
[ pahr-ey-oo ]
noun
- Also pa·re·o []. a length of cloth, especially of a brightly colored print, wrapped on the body like a lavalava and worn by women as a cover-up, skirt, dress, or the like.
pareu
/ ˈpɑːreɪˌuː /
noun
- a rectangle of fabric worn by Polynesians as a skirt or loincloth
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pareu1
Borrowed into English from Tahitian around 1855–60
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pareu1
from Tahitian
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Example Sentences
All were garlanded with gold and crimson and orange flowers, while each wore about the hips a scarlet pareu.
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Mr. Pottle's eyes fell on his own scarlet pareu and the brownish legs beneath it.
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I made a tourniquet of a strip of my pareu and, with a small harpoon, 30 twisted it until the flow of blood was stopped.
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Wrapped only in a gorgeous red pareu, I sat on the paepae of the chief's house, now become mine.
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Nevertheless, as I smoked at ease in my pareu upon the paepae of my simple hosts I felt some misgivings rise in me.
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