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 that covers the loins (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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • He goes on to make this beautiful statement: A loincloth is something put on the body.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • 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.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

  • One guy was kneeling with his drawn bow, and on his loincloth was a swastika design.

    Merry Christmas, pt. 2 – The Bleat. 2009

  • But for my part the loincloth was the main reason to hire him.

    Turns out this guy isn't even a real lawyer 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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