Waistcloth

Quick meaning: Waistcloth is a noun meaning A cloth or garment worn around the waist.

Meaning

A cloth or garment worn around the waist.

More Meanings

1. (nautical, historical) A covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• waistcloths

Synonyms for waistcloth

Depending on context, synonyms include cincture, sash, girdle, waistband.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include waistband, sash, girdle, cincture, waistwrap, waist.

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