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‖ piupiu N.Z.|ˈpjuːpjuː|
[Maori.]
a. Dressed flax. Also attrib.
b. A Maori skirt made of dressed flax (see quot. 1946).
1882T. H. Potts Out in Open 23 Robes of piu piu, korowai, or of dogskin, contributed a great variety of costume. 1905W. Baucke Where White Man Treads 90 Who so..skilful in the weaving of piupiu, korowai, fancy mats as..Te Aatarangi? 1938R. Finlayson Brown Man's Burden 30 He just threw his coat off and rolled his trousers up, but the other men wore old-time piupius, and their imitation battle-axes were quite clever. Ibid. 67 Lucy, dressed in her swishing piupiu skirt and gay headband..swung the little poi balls for the tourists' snapshots which they labelled ‘Maori dancer, Rotorua’. 1946Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. June 156 Piupiu, a garment consisting of a heavy fringe, about nine inches wide or more, made of flax and craped at intervals and dyed black. The flax when drying curling up into pipes. 1970Times 23 Mar. 7/6 Down on the grass before her stood ranks of Maori men and women in Piu-Pius (flaxen skirts). 1978P. Grace Mutuwhenua iii. 12 My mother and the others had been..bringing out the piupiu which had been rolled and sausaged into stockings and stored at the tops of our wardrobes. |