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pareu|ˈpɑːreɪuː|
Also pariu, pareo.
[Native Polynesian name.]
A skirt worn by men and women in Polynesia, made of a single straight piece of cloth, usu. of printed cotton. So pareu cloth, the cloth of which this and other Polynesian garments are made.
1860Mayne Reid Odd People 211 There is but one ‘garment’ to be described, and that is the ‘pareu’, which will be better understood, perhaps, by calling it a ‘petti⁓coat’. 1894Stevenson & Osbourne Ebb-Tide i. i. 13, I saw a man in a pariu, and with a mat under his arm, come along the beach from the town. 1914R. Brooke Let. 5 Apr. (1968) 574 I'll wind my parea [sic] tighter round my middle & go & pull out the canoes & we'll all jump in. 1914― Let. 24 May (1968) 588 Raymond Buildings must be littered with dropped smocks. May I add a well⁓worn paréo to the heap on Friday week—a day or two after you get this? 1919Century Mag. Aug. 452/2 The light fell upon..the men,..catching ruddy gleams from red pareus. 1919W. S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence liii. 230 The pareo is a long strip of trade cotton... It is worn round the waist and hangs to the knees. 1932― Narrow Corner ix. 46 In a little while a blackfellow, wearing nothing but a pareo, came along. 1949P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) ii. v. 158 The women's skirt, termed pareu in the Cook and Society Islands, was a wider piece of material wound around the waist and descending to above the knees for single girls and below the knees for married women. 1961Sunday Express 26 Nov. 21/1 A gorgeous young Polynesian girl..was wearing a native pareu,—a sort of wrap-around costume of flowered cloth. 1969R. T. Wilcox Dict. Costume (1970) 259/2 Pareu, pareo, a Polynesian skirt or loincloth of standard size and colors, a rectangle printed with conventional flower designs. 1972Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 16 Apr. 2/1 The children also discovered..pareu cloth at 89c a yard. This brightly colored, boldly designed cloth is used all over the Pacific for virtually all clothing, as well as for bed-covers, drapes, room dividers and tablecloths. 1974T. Heyerdahl Fatu-Hiva i. 41 To walk in the woods and hills of Papenoo was sheer pleasure, for there we wore only an airy pareu, and the temperature felt like a pleasant dream. |