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grass skirts

n. (grass skirt English)

Usage examples of "grass skirts".

They catch fish and roast boar, and their girls dance and wear grass skirts and rub their men behind the ears.

The sturdiest shelter consisted of a lean-to built of sticks covered by a roof woven of reeds, their clothing was little more than grass skirts and cloaks, cunningly braided together, and they had only one cooking pot among them as well as baskets and sharpened sticks fashioned into spears or fishing forks.

Certainly Malink's people would be angry at him for not giving them the time to prepare the drums and the bamboo rifles of Vincent's army--and the women, oh, the women would be shifting coconuts over not having time to oil their skins and paint their faces and put on their ceremonial grass skirts.

Some of the lady passengers wearing grass skirts and some wearing even less.

They were dressed authentically, grass skirts and necklaces, a flower in the hair, nothing else.

They wore rough swamp grass skirts and little else, and their long hair was tangled and matted and hung half over their sullen faces.

Then half a dozen hula-hula girls came undulating barefoot into the pink spotlight, their grass skirts audibly swishing.

The old-timers who have hidden behind grass skirts, the ones with the mustaches, with the broken accents, the Chile Charlie types, the Sancho Panzas of America, los tontos, sidekicks of Zorro.