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loinclothes

loinclothes noun: garments worn about the loins and covering the crotch.

Noun

loinclothes pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Garments worn about the loins and covering the crotch.
    • They were small men, wiry, active, and well-built, with lank black hair tied up in a bunch behind their heads with a leathern thong, and leathern also were their loin-clothes.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Questions about loinclothes

What does loinclothes mean?
Loinclothes means garments worn about the loins and covering the crotch.
What part of speech is loinclothes?
Loinclothes is a noun.

Words near loinclothes in the dictionary

  1. loin eyes
  2. loin-girding
  3. LOINC
  4. loincloth
  5. loinclothed
  6. loinclothes
  7. loincloths
  8. loined
  9. Loiner
  10. Loiners
  11. loineye

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