Definition of "waistcloth" [waist•cloth]

• A loincloth. (noun)

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• "Dyak men wear a waistcloth which is made either of the soft inner bark of a tree, or else of cotton cloth."
• "Always turning about and moving with the chorus, she repeats this process again and again, showing more legs and hips every time, until the siapa waistcloth barely hangs on her, and would fall except that she holds it."
• ""Well, then," Mumtaz says, pulling her record book out from her waistcloth."