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grass skirt

n. a skirt made from long dried grass, or synthetic material resembling it.

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grass skirt

n. a skirt made of long blades of grass

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Grass skirt

A grass skirt, is a skirt that hangs from the hip and covers all or part of the legs. Grass skirts are made of many different natural fibers, such as hibiscus, palm, or Phormium tenax in New Zealand, and are traditional clothes in many different cultures from Polynesia to Africa. They are still worn today by huala girls in Hawaii as well as African tribes.

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Usage examples of "grass skirt".

Many of the people were simply dressed, often in nothing more than a simple kUt and sandals or grass skirt, occasionally topped by flowing robes of varying colors and designs.

All he wanted to do was to spend two months soaking up the sun on some Hawaiian beach, with Sister Wutherspoon in a grass skirt ministering to his every need.

And Mina, in her own little grass skirt, rising to her toes and spinning just as her mother did.

The Captain in a grass skirt, dancing heartily, and the orchestra keeping step with him.

The only decorative objects were an ivory figurine of the Mother in a niche on the wall, and hanging next to it, an intricately decorated girdle from which a dried and withered grass skirt hung.

Now she wore a grass skirt, and removed her jacket, leaving her upper portion bare.