Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A strip of cloth worn around the loins.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of stuff, skin, or other material worn as clothing about the loins, or more exactly about the hips.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cloth covering for the loins, worn around the hips; -- sometimes worn in tropical areas as the only article of clothing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
garment thatcovers theloins (crotch ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a garment that provides covering for the loins
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Examples
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Anyone who's got the stones to walk around a European convention center wearing little more than a fur loincloth is okay in my book.
Frank the German Barbarian! Reis O'Brien 2009
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Anyone who's got the stones to walk around a European convention center wearing little more than a fur loincloth is okay in my book.
Archive 2009-11-01 Reis O'Brien 2009
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He goes on to make this beautiful statement: A loincloth is something put on the body.
Merkins and Kotekas and Codpieces, Oh My! Heather McDougal 2007
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He goes on to make this beautiful statement: A loincloth is something put on the body.
Archive 2007-10-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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This time the rubber tail is thinner and more flexible than Jake's, and also the loincloth is shorter, so sitting poses are less of a chore to achieve.
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One guy was kneeling with his drawn bow, and on his loincloth was a swastika design.
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But for my part the loincloth was the main reason to hire him.
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But for my part the loincloth was the main reason to hire him.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Turns out this guy isn’t even a real lawyer 2007
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There were about a hundred and fifty men, all rather eerily the same size, all of them wearing nothing but a white garment that could only be described as a loincloth.
The Princess Jude Deveraux 1987
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There were about a hundred and fifty men, all rather eerily the same size, all of them wearing nothing but a white garment that could only be described as a loincloth.
The Princess Jude Deveraux 1987
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