Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A printed cloth garment resembling a skirt or kilt, worn as the principle garment by both men and women in Polynesia, especialy in Samoa; called also
pareu .
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- noun An
everyday item ofclothing traditionally worn byPolynesians and otherOceanic peoples, consisting of a singlerectangular cloth worn as askirt ,secured around thewaist by anoverhand knotting of the upper corners.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a skirt consisting of a rectangle of calico or printed cotton; worn by Polynesians (especially Samoans)
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Examples
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It was also why so many women wore modest ankle-length skirts and why men wore knee-length ones -- the traditional garments called lavalava -- and why tourists weren't supposed to wear shorts and swimsuits anywhere off the beach.
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The weird figure of Faauma is in the room washing my windows, in a black lavalava (kilt) with a red handkerchief hanging from round her neck between her breasts; not another stitch; her hair close cropped and oiled; when she first came here she was an angelic little stripling, but she is now in full flower — or half-flower — and grows buxom.
Vailima Letters 2005
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Femme tatouee de Falalap, Ouest Carolines 1935 accurately depicts tattoos, shells, Ulithian lavalava patterns, and even windswept hair, but the face is right off the kabuki stage.
Karhu and Jacoulet – Foreign Japanese Woodblock Print Artists « Far Outliers 2004
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He was dressed in a dark coat and _lavalava_ and white shirt, and looked very swagger indeed.
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895
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And then how they marched up here, every man in a new black lavalava, some forty strong, to decorate the grave?
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895
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The Samoan lavalava is a wraparound "skirt" worn by Polynesian men and hardly a girlish trend.
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The Samoan lavalava is a wraparound "skirt" worn by Polynesian men and hardly a girlish trend.
unknown title 2009
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"The clothing worn by the men and woman was nothing but the 'lavalava,'
The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition Fay-Cooper Cole 1921
fbharjo commented on the word lavalava
It just flows?
August 29, 2014