Loose garment

Usage examples of sarong.

The thatched piers were crowded with turbaned Mussulmen in their bajus or short jackets, full white trousers, and red sarongs or plaitless kilts--the boys dressed in silver fig-leaves and silver bangles only.

Having no towel, she used one end of the sarong to dry herself, adjusted her sampot and wound the sarong about her lithe body.

Old women with shaven heads went by, wrapped from armpit to ankle in black sarongs called sampots, with spotless white blouses.

More men were coming ashore from the boats now, and one of them, square and unaroused, in a white shirt and a sarong, walked slowly to Wellbeloved.

These were poor people, Aly noted, with scarcely an unpatched jacket or sarong to their names.

Fifteen or so saronged Indonesian tourists were waiting on the other side of the gate, conversing in Bahasa pidgin and sipping locally bottled designer water.

His sarong, a skirtlike garment that men kilted up between their legs, was patterned in black and white diagonal stripes.

Her fingers clenched on the rail as she realized that she saw hundreds of copper-skinned raka, men and women alike, dressed in the traditional wrapped jacket or round-collared tunic, and the tied skirtlike wrap called a sarong.

His concession to Earthworks was his sarong, but he had a short-barreled rifle on his lap.

Most of the villagers were dressed in Western-style casual wear, baggy shorts and oversized T-shirts, though a few of the women were wrapped in beautiful sarongs of an ornate and abstract design.

Nut-brown skin, short baju coat, multicolored sarong and the decorating head cloth in the gathering darkness.

Sulina slipped off the bed and relied the sarong and adjusted her little baju jacket.

He gave his sarong a final tug, smoothed a thinning lock across his forehead, led the way along the echoing hall and down a spiral stair to an archway debouching onto wide steps above a ragged lawn.

They made a colorful cross-section, many of them wearing the old traditional national costumes that had lain in trunks for generationsembroidered dirndls, elaborate peasant blouses, Balkan tunics, sarongs, chesterfields, tam-o'-shanters, gray flannels, and regimental ties.

If that jump suit does not fit, I may appear in a bath towel sarong.