What does waistcloth mean?
Waistcloth means A cloth or garment worn around the waist..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A cloth or garment worn around the waist..
Two rows of slate beds, three of which only were occupied; two men and a boy, nude save a waistcloth; over their heads--sluggishly swayed by the air the new-comer had carelessly admitted--their clothes were hung like shapeless shadows.
He was dressed in all the dignity of a woollen shirt, with a piece of fine "tapa" for a waistcloth, feet and legs bare.
Fresh leaves had been stripped from a bush and a tiny fragment or two indicated that the Ojibway had torn a piece from his deerskin waistcloth to fasten over the leaves.
Use waistcloth when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Waistcloth means A cloth or garment worn around the waist..
Common synonyms include cincture, sash, girdle, waistband.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Two rows of slate beds, three of which only were occupied; two men and a boy, nude save a waistcloth; over their heads--sluggishly swayed by the air the new-comer had carelessly admitted--their clothes were hung like shapeless shadows.
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