lava-lava

Noun

lavalava (plural lavalavas or lavalava)

1. An everyday item of clothing traditionally worn by Polynesians and other Oceanic peoples, consisting of a single rectangular cloth worn as a skirt, secured around the waist by an overhand knotting of the upper corners.
   • Some tourists buy Samoan identity merchandise as novelties, but most prefer sloganless items such as printed lavalavas.1997, Michel Picard, Robert Everett Wood, Tourism, ethnicity, and the state in Asian and Pacific societies