What is "leis"

Usage examples of "leis".

Most of them risked so much by leaving good jobs with much larger variety chains to join up with a one-horse outfit run by an overactive dreamer down in Bentonvillepeople like Clarence Leis, Willard Walker, Charlie Baum, Ron Loveless, Bob Bogle, Claude Harris, Ferold Arend, Charlie Cate, Al Miles, Thomas Jefferson, Gary Reinboth.

Robin stood up, a red beanie in one hand and two leis, one pink, one yellow, in the other.

Becca watched him take off his beanie and his leis and sidle up to the bar beside a svelte young woman with titan hair halfway down her back.

She smiled and pointed at a table, the same table from Friday night, where Becca Savard sat by herself, with two paper leis around her neck and a red beanie with a yellow propeller on her head.

Household tikis for good luck, puka shell necklaces, plastic leis, beach sand in a bottle.

The seven leis made a collar of flowers that came clear up above her ears, as she stood on at the rail.

She took the six flower leis off her head and dropped them over the side.

The six leis fell together and the wind blew them back against the side of the ship and out of sight and she did not see them light on the water.

THERE WERE NO pretty girls with leis to meet me at the Honolulu International Airport, but a greeter-type lady handed me a glass of pineapple juice when I got inside the terminal.

Why, the boys will line the rails and whistle and hoot and throw down the leis the girls gave them in town, as we come alongside.

With pastel Hawaiian leis around their necks and red felt beanies with yellow propellers on their heads.

Green retreats to behind one of the trees as beefy flannel forms with leis shedding petals, their speech grunty-foreign and unmistakably Canadian, a couple with ukuleles, spill out like ants over the sagging porch and into the yard, mill and jabber, a couple kneel by the form of the former dog.

If the otters liked the leis, the self-proclaimed deep sea otters would have liked them.

Eventually, though, I slipped on the grass skirt and the Hawaiian shirt and the leis over my suit and did what I think was a pretty fair hula.