pareu
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- noun
- /pɑːˈreɪuː/
- Australian
- For example, women wear a T-shirt and a pareu (a roughly one-by-two meter length of dyed or printed cloth) for dance rehearsal.
- wearing a pareu
- dressed in pareu
Examples
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During the festival, the dancers twirled gracefully in their colorful pareu, celebrating their heritage.
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Pareu are also worn as aprons and are used to carry parcels.
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However, garments of European origin are worn with pareu in many of these settings.
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Men also use the pareu as a means of demonstrating their ties to Maohi tradition.
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Pareu are not only associated with dancing or special occasions; most women in the village, and some men, don them following their evening baths.
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Invariably, these women tied pareu about their waists before beginning to dance.
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Women who have bathed and dressed in pareu do not change for vespers.
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Women cleaning the church grounds and sanctuary, or arranging flowers for the weekly services, may wear pareu while performing these tasks.
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At the time, he was wearing a pareu about his waist and a hei (garland) on his head.
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Notably, people often wear pareu to weeknight evening meetings that include dance rehearsals—the dance, of course, being traditional Maohi dance.
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Synonyms
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A piece of clothing that hangs from the waist and covers the legs
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A long piece of cloth you wrap around your body to make a loose skirt or dress
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A brightly colored cloth worn wrapped around the body, often in West Africa
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word pareu comes from Tahitian in the Pacific and originally named a cloth people 'wrap' around the body, and it is often spelled pareo. That's why today a pareu means a colorful wraparound skirt or cloth worn in Tahiti.