Crossword clues for lavalava
The Collaborative International Dictionary
lavalava \la`va*la"va\ (l[aum]`v[.a]*l[aum]"v[.a]), n. A printed cloth garment resembling a skirt or kilt, worn as the principle garment by both men and women in Polynesia, especialy in Samoa; called also pareu.
Wiktionary
n. An everyday item of clothing traditionally worn by Polynesians and other Oceanic peoples, consisting of a single rectangular cloth worn as a skirt, secured around the waist by an overhand knotting of the upper corners.
WordNet
n. a skirt consisting of a rectangle of calico or printed cotton; worm by Polynesians (especially Samoans)
Usage examples of "lavalava".
She moved her hips in a figure-eight motion that was so quick the print of her lavalava blurred into a halo of color around her hips.
As it was, he was lucky his lavalava was wrapped so that it concealed his arousal.
Ignoring the lavalava draped over the sink, he wrapped a towel around his hips and got his clothes from Bobby’s office, where he had traded them earlier for the lavalava he wore onstage.
For long minutes he stood without moving, not noticing the rain pressing his shirt against his chest and making his lavalava cling wetly to his hips.
The lavalava she wore low on her hips was the same golden-red as her hair.
Swift tugs, a slither of black silk, and the lavalava unwrapped to reveal the golden warmth of the woman beneath.
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.
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.
She turned her back toward him to step out of the lavalava, which under other circumstances might have been a modest posture.
She wrapped the lavalava around her waist and pulled a few bills out of a pocket, and handed him a ten.
She bought him a garish silk crimson lavalava and dared him to wear it to dinner.
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.
Sepie had been marked for mispel from the moment of her menses, when she emerged from the women's house with her lavalava tied a bit too high and showing a bit too much cappuccino thigh, her skin rubbed with copra until she glistened all over, and her breasts shining like polished wooden tea cups.
She was wearing a purple lavalava, which she unwrapped and dropped on the sand.
He watched her wrap the lavalava around her hips and disappear into the trees.