From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishloinclothloin‧cloth /ˈlɔɪnklɒθ $ -klɒːθ/ noun [countable] DCCa piece of cloth that men in some hot countries wear around their waist to cover their sexual organs
Examples from the Corpus
loincloth• His scrawny body was naked except for a loincloth and the tattered remains of a jerkin.• He wore a loincloth and a black shirt.• Wearing only his celebrated loincloth and sandals, he was a contrast in gleaming white and soft brown.• There are also pictures of both men cavorting in gauzy loincloths.• They probably had gold loincloths too.• His sole concession to the temperature was a leather loincloth.• He wore the usual loincloth, sandals, a shawl, and his dangling dollar watch. 