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Example sentences for "breechcloth"

Lexicographically close words:
breder; breds; bredth; breead; breech; breeched; breeches; breeching; breechings; breechless
  1. He wore only a breechcloth and the little pillbox hat in which he kept his matches and tobacco.

  2. He got down to a breechcloth and he was all primitive.

  3. He wore a breechcloth of dirty white, and his chest was naked, save for two objects--objects terrible enough to send a thrill of horror through the beholder.

  4. He was naked save for a breechcloth and boot moccasins and his face was daubed with ocher and vermilion.

  5. Mainly,' he continued, 'from the support and countenance given in that House to American rebellion.

  6. In the meantime, "Immediately before the fall of Lord North's Ministry, in anticipation of that event, Dr.

  7. After smoking a few whiffs, the cigar is allowed to go out, and the stump is tucked away in the breechcloth or behind the ear for future use.

  8. Clad in a bright-red breechcloth and extra-high silk hat was the capitán who headed the procession.

  9. He was a heavy-set man of about 38, harelipped, an old ragged shirt and breechcloth his only apparel, and with nothing of his former grandeur but the memory.

  10. Clothing and Dress The clothing of the Negrito consists simply of the breechcloth and an occasional cast-off shirt given him by some Filipino in exchange for articles.

  11. Their only clothing is a breechcloth and a short skirt of flayed bark.

  12. So far as I could learn the breechcloth and saya are never washed, and any cloth other than black would soon lose its original color.

  13. If given their choice among a variety of colors the Negritos always select black for their breechcloth and saya, because, they explain, the black will not show dirt as will other colors.

  14. In the less easily accessible regions where the wilder Negritos live the breechcloth and saya are made of the inner bark of certain trees which is flayed until it becomes soft and pliable.

  15. Two large blood blisters were to be seen on the inner aspects of his thighs, brought on by the friction of his breechcloth in running.

  16. The breechcloth generally consists of a piece of white woollen cloth with dark blue stripes.

  17. The young man, for whom the ceremony is performed, stands with only his breechcloth at the entrance of the sudatory, where for some time he wails and laments.

  18. After entering it, he rid himself of his breechcloth and the coverings were immediately dropped.

  19. The invalid sat to the northeast of the circle; a breechcloth was his only apparel.

  20. These cloth bags are woven in most of the pueblos where the cotton breechcloth is made.

  21. However, the cloth is worn by a large per cent of men in Bontoc and Samoki, not as a breechcloth but tucked under the girdle and hanging in front simply as an apron.

  22. As far back as the pueblo memory extends pigs have been used to purchase a particularly good breechcloth called "balakes," made in Balangao, three days east of Bontoc.

  23. A common form of invitation is for the girl to steal a man's pipe, his pocket hat, or even the breechcloth he is wearing.

  24. Within the Bontoc area fully 50 per cent of the men wear the breechcloth simply as an apron.

  25. Men generally carry a bag tucked under the girdle, and very often indeed these bags are worn in lieu of the breechcloth aprons -- the girdle and the bag apron being the only clothing (see Pl.

  26. The head of the man is thrust in this, and the rest of his body being naked except the breechcloth and moccasins, is painted with black and red stripes.

  27. They strip naked except the breechcloth and moccasins and paint their bodies in every possible variety of manner.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "breechcloth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.