sarongn.
/səˈrɒŋ/, U.S. /səˈrɔŋ/, /səˈrɑŋ/ 1. 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.)
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sarong1834
1834 G. Bennett Wanderings New S. Wales II. x. 217 He was attired in a dirty sarong around his waist, and a loose baju or jacket.
1895 F. A. Swettenham Malay Sketches 172 The Sárong is the Malay national garment, a sort of skirt, usually in tartan, worn by men and women alike.
1911 Encycl. 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.
1923 D. 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.
1953 G. Durrell Overloaded Ark ix. 166 Here he removed his sarong and proceeded to bathe.
1965 R. McKie Company of Animals iv. 77 They..pulled up their checked sarongs to spit between their crossed legs.
1971 Sun (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.
2. (See quot. 1858.)
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric from specific place > [noun]
irislams1375
westvale1383
hinderland1465
ypir?1517
Normandy1529
Ghentish1545
mant1575
Scots cloth1581
northerna1592
turquesques1594
Westphalia1612
nilla1614
phota1616
Norwich stuff1618
Venus1629
nicanee1652
East India1659
caffoy1678
Bengal1681
Mantua1699
coffoy1703
Chello1712
negannepaut1725
Russia drab1741
Wilton1744
toile de Jouy1784
sorting-cloth1847
rum-swizzle1851
sarong1858
Yokohama1879
Turkoman1881
Mexican1883
kanga1895
Milanese1926
leso1961
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Sarong,..a woven or printed fabric imported into the Dutch ports of the Eastern archipelago.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations.
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cod-pieced1579
pectoral1616
peasecod-bellied1650
wrapping1787
tunical1805
shad-bellied1832
odalisque1837
peplum1866
pubic1892
sack-back1892
middy1894
sarong1913
hip-hugger1932
bloused1935
snake hook1944
1913 L. Woolf Village in Jungle vii. 193 In the roof between the thatch he found the two sarong cloths.
1944 Film 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’.
1972 M. Sheppard Taman Indera 40 Thin cut out panels with another sarong design were fitted into the end wall at the same level.
1979 W. H. Canaway Solid Gold Buddha xiii. 95 Both men wore sarong-like lower garments.
Derivatives
saˈronged adj. wearing or attired in a sarong.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing clothing for body (and limbs) > other
kirtled1637
untuckered1713
jerkined1777
tabarded1837
doubleted1858
cardiganed1871
blouse-clad1892
saronged1934
sari'd1958
sweatshirted1977
1934 R. V. C. Bodley Japanese Omelette iii. 19 The good-natured smile of the saronged Malays and their cousins the Sudanese and Madoerese concealed no sinister thoughts.
1962 Punch 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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