Definition of sulu in English:
sulu
nounPlural sulus ˈsuːluːˈso͞olo͞o
A length of cotton or other light fabric wrapped about the body as a sarong, worn from the waist by men and full-length by women from the Melanesian Islands.
Example sentencesExamples
- Heading into court in traditional Fijian sulu skirt, Speight looked calmly confident.
- I had flown 16 hours and more than 8,000 miles from New York, and I thought that I had landed in the '60s, everywhere there were smiling men and women clad in colorful sulus, sporting Afros, and exchanging a robust ‘Bula!’
- Traditional Fijian clothing for men is a native kilt called a sulu.
- Finiki, 68, is barefoot and wears a bright orange sulu, an orange tropical shirt, and a straw hat.
- A senior man beats a log drum to summon the village to afternoon prayer; women in ‘Mother Hubbard’ dresses and men in sulu wraps file into the stone Methodist church and Sweet Jesus hymns waft out.