The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like.
1 Here, take this dollar, and tie it up in the corner of your waistcloth .
2 For instance, they have doors and verandahs to their huts, work skins perfectly, and wear a waistcloth and not a moocha.
3 There we stripped off our outer garments till Bes was naked save for his waistcloth and I was clad only in a jerkin.
4 There was otherwise no change in Tomaso's habiliments, which consisted, as usual, of dark trousers, a white shirt, and a dark-blue faja or waistcloth .
5 He was dressed in all the dignity of a woollen shirt, with a piece of fine "tapa" for a waistcloth , feet and legs bare.
6 She was a straight, black-looking craft, with a handsome billet, low, thin bulwarks, and waistcloths secured to ridge-ropes.
7 The men were dressed in waistcloths of blue cotton, hanging down behind, mostly bordered with red, blue, and white.
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