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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Related topics: Clothes
sarongsa‧rong /səˈrɒŋ $ səˈrɒːŋ, səˈrɑːŋ/ noun [countable] DCCa loose skirt consisting of a long piece of cloth wrapped around your waist, worn especially by people in Malaysia and Indonesia
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sarong• He wore homemade sandals and a sarong that fell from his waist to his bony knees.• I wonder how I look in a sarong?• She wrapped it round herself, like a sarong, under her arms, and stepped out of the water.• Then he dropped the parang to fumble in his sarong.• She wears traditional dress: a white, high-necked blouse and a dark ankle-length sarong with an embroidered band around the hem.• The air hostesses on the flight to Bangkok wear pink and purple sarongs with gold borders, western eye-makeup, smiles.
Origin sarong (1800-1900) Malay
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