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pareu

pareu is the alternative form of pareo.

Meaning of pareo

Noun

pareo (plural pareos)

  1. A wraparound garment, worn by men or women, similar to a Malaysian sarong.
    • “[…] you must have seen pictures of her. He painted her over and over again, sometimes with a pareo on and sometimes with nothing at all. Yes, she was pretty enough. […]”1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 51, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

Forms of pareu

pluralpareus

Questions about pareu

What is pareu the alternative form of?
Pareu is the alternative form of pareo.

Words near pareu in the dictionary

  1. Paretoan
  2. Paretsky
  3. Paretskys
  4. paretymological
  5. paretymology
  6. pareu
  7. pareunia
  8. pareus
  9. parev
  10. pareve
  11. parevine

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pareu (page history and authors); pareo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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