waist-clothn.
/ˈweɪs(t)klɒθ/, U.S. /ˈweɪs(t)ˌklɔθ/, /ˈweɪs(t)ˌklɑθ/ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > decorative cloths
mast-cloth1600
waist-cloth1615
1615 R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 31 The China Capt. being ready to goe for Goto, I lent hym our boate and wastclothes, and delivered hym back 120 Rs. of 8.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiii. 59 Out goes his flag and pendants, also his waste clothes and top armings, which is a long red cloth..that goeth round about the ship on the out sides of all her vpper workes fore and aft,..as well for the..grace of the ship, as to couer the men for being seene.
1660 S. Pepys Diary 16 May (1970) I. 142 We..had our guns ready to fire and our Scarlett wastecloaths out and silk pendants.
1840 H. Smith Oliver Cromwell I. 284 Hundreds of lighters, pinnaces, and longboats, dressed up with waist~cloths and with streamers.
2. Nautical. A hammock-cloth stowed in the waist of a vessel.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > devices to protect ship from weather > covering of canvas or tarpaulin > covering for hammocks
netting-sail1627
hammock-cloth1804
top-cloth1815
waist-cloth1815
1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Waist-cloths, coverings of canvas or tarpauling for the hammocks, which are stowed on the gang-ways, between the quarter-deck and fore-castle.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Waist-cloths, the painted canvas coverings of the hammocks which are stowed in the waist-nettings.
3. A loin-cloth that the native inhabitants of hot climates wear round the waist, either hanging down in front or passed between the thighs.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > clothing for loins or genital area > loin cloth
dhoti1622
lungi1634
veil1634
pagne1698
breech-clout1757
lap1769
maro1769
waist-cloth1810
langoti1816
breech-cloth1841
malo1850
loin-cloth1859
G string1878
loin-rag1929
lap-lap1930
1810 T. Williamson E. India Vade-mecum I. 247 The dress of the doby is generally very plain, consisting of a turban, a dotee, (or waist-cloth,) and a chudder, (or sheet).
1835 Court Mag. 6 65/2 Sometimes black glazed jackets formed part of their attire; but generally it consisted of nothing more than a blue checquered dotee, or waistcloth.
1882 H. de Windt On Equator 81 The deceased is then brought up attired in his waistcloth and ornaments.
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