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Definition of "waift" [waift]

  • Obsolete form of waif. (noun)

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Use "waift" in a sentence
  • "They are large, (Irong, and favage people, in general taller than the inhabitants of the fea-fliores; they go moilly naked, both men and women, and only wear a thick bandage round their waift, which is called chiaaca, and is made of the milky bark of a tree, called by them facka (being the ficamorus alba)."
  • "From the waift, upwards, they are generally naked; and it feemed to be a cuflom to anoint thefe parts every morning."
  • "They wrap round the waift a piece of cloth that reaches half way down the thighs, and fometimes in the cool of the evening they appeared with loofe pieces of fine cloth thrown over their fhoulders, like the women of Otaheite."
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