lavalava

If a lavalava is worn it need not be white.

She turned her back toward him to step out of the lavalava, which under other circumstances might have been a modest posture.

It closed in for the kill, first wrapping a lavalava around its waist.

In Samoa it is known as a lavalava (also lava-lava).

He watched her wrap the lavalava around her hips and disappear into the trees.

At a more touristy place, it bought a couple of bright shirts and a souvenir lavalava.

She was wearing a purple lavalava, which she unwrapped and dropped on the sand.

She wrapped the lavalava around her waist and pulled a few bills out of a pocket, and handed him a ten.

Thus he is portrayed as a well-built Pacific Islander in a lavalava.

She bought him a garish silk crimson lavalava and dared him to wear it to dinner.

It retrieved lavalava and sandals and jogged back to the B-and-B.

Dress conservatively - lavalava and a dress that covers chest and up to elbows.

Supporters wore a Mau uniform of a navy blue lavalava with a white stripe which was later banned by the colonial administration.

Men will wear white shirts with either white slacks or the traditional 'i.e. faitaga form of the lavalava.

Samoans were requested specifically to wear "a black lavalava or sulu and a white top with traditional elei patterns."

The clerk showed it how to tie a lavalava dress, and it chose a matching blue shirt that it would have called Hawaiian in any other context.

Little Merizo, clad in his everyday black lavalava skirt and fly whisk, called Keikano from Chip's side to help clarify these jaw breaking words.

In English, such garments are generically called sarong, but that word is actually Malay, whereas lava-lava is Samoan, being short for ʻie lavalava (cloth that wraps around).

An Australian journalist travelling on a Burns Philp steamer noted that the most Marshallese women wore the kimono instead of the traditional loincloth (lavalava in Marshallese) in October 1918.

He picked up a quart of bottled water and took it to the checkout counter, where a woman in a lavalava and a blue polyester smock rang up his purchase and held out her hand for the money.

It is related to the Malay sarong, Sāmoan lavalava, Tongan tupenu and other such garments of the Pacific Islands such as the islands of Hawaiʻi, Marquesas, Aotearoa, and Fiji.

It had formed a bathing suit around its body, modest by American standards, but also wore the lavalava walking to the beach, so as not to offend the locals-who were all sleeping it off anyhow, except for the yawning young girl who took its money at the park entrance.

O le Taga Tapulu (back and small of the back): In the first session the height to which the tattoo will rise is decided (Ano le Tua), this is always such that the top of the design will show above the lavalava.

Sarongs exist in various cultures under various names, including the pareo and lavalava of the Hawaiian islands and Polynesia (Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, and Fiji), the Indian dhoti and lungi, and the South Indian and Maldivian mundu.