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sarong|səˈrɒŋ|
[Malay sārung, prob. from some mod. form of Skr. sāranga variegated.]
1. a. The Malay national garment, resembling a skirt, which consists of a long strip of (often striped or brightly-coloured) cloth worn round the waist and sometimes the chest by both sexes. (Its use is not restricted to Malaysia.)
1834G. Bennett Wand. N.S.W., etc. II. 217 He was attired in a dirty sarong around his waist, and a loose baju or jacket. 1895F. A. Swettenham Malay Sk. 172 The Sárong is the Malay national garment, a sort of skirt, usually in tartan, worn by men and women alike. 1911Encycl. Brit. XVII. 483/1 The silk is imported raw and is re-exported in the form of Malay clothing (sarongs) of patterns and quality which are widely celebrated. 1923D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo i. 6 Somers had..opened the bags, so she fished out an Indian sarong of purplish shot colour, to try how it would look across the table. 1953G. M. Durrell Overloaded Ark ix. 166 Here he removed his sarong and proceeded to bathe. 1965R. McKie Company of Animals iv. 77 They..pulled up their checked sarongs to spit between their crossed legs. 1971Sun (Colombo) 20 Sept. 5/2 When it comes to crossing a stream groin deep the man in sarong has an advantage over the one in long trousers.
b. attrib. and Comb.
1913L. Woolf Village in Jungle vii. 193 In the roof between the thatch he found the two sarong cloths. 1944Film Star Parade, Dorothy Lamour... Paramount tested her for the leading part in ‘Jungle Princess’ and it was thus that she first became the ‘sarong girl’. 1972M. Sheppard Taman Indera 40 Thin cut out panels with another sarong design were fitted into the end wall at the same level. 1979W. H. Canaway Solid Gold Buddha xiii. 95 Both men wore sarong-like lower garments.
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1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Sarong,..a woven or printed fabric imported into the Dutch ports of the Eastern archipelago.
Hence saˈronged a., wearing or attired in a sarong.
1934R. V. C. Bodley Jap. Omelette iii. 19 The good-natured smile of the saronged Malays and their cousins the Sudanese and Madoerese concealed no sinister thoughts. 1962Punch 18 July 106/1 We barely have time to settle down from the last lot of celluloid raptures enacted beneath our palms when some other super-colossal unit arrives to shoot further bouts of saronged amour. |