| 释义 |
▪ I. ‖ maro|ˈmarɔ|
[Polynesian.]
A loin-cloth used by certain South Sea Islanders.
1772–84Cook's Voy. (1790) VI. 2047 A piece of thick cloth, called the maro, about a foot in breadth, which passes between the legs, and is fastened round the waist. 1833A. Smith in M. D. Frear Lowell & Abigail (1934) 63 Many others wear nothing but a narrow strip of tapa about their loins, called a maro. 1860Mayne Reid Odd People 213 A coarser and scantier pareu is to be seen among the poorer people,..and not unfrequently this is only a mere strip wrapped around the loins; in other words, a ‘malo’, ‘maro’, or ‘maso’—as it is indifferently written in the varied orthography of the voyagers. 1898[see tapa1]. 1969R. T. Wilcox Dict. Costume (1970) 201 Malo, the Hawaiian man's girdle or loincloth. Originally of tapa cloth which was made from tree bark, but now of cotton dyed in brilliant colors.
▪ II. maro
obs. form of marrow n.1 |