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waistcloth

waistcloth noun: a cloth or garment worn around the waist.

Noun

waistcloth (plural waistcloths)

  1. A cloth or garment worn around the waist.
    • Two rows of slate beds, three of which only were occupied; two men and a boy, nude save a waistcloth; over their heads--sluggishly swayed by the air the new-comer had carelessly admitted--their clothes were hung like shapeless shadows.1791, Alexandre (fils) Dumas, The Son of Clemenceau
    • A few mats, baskets, and cooking vessels, with plates and basins purchased from the Macassar traders, constitute their whole furniture; spears and bows are their weapons; a sarong or mat forms the clothing of the women, a waist-cloth of the men.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 231
  2. (historical) A covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.

waistcloth meaning in Tamil and Punjabi

waistcloth in Tamil

மானக்லை, குண்டித்துணி, அந்தரீயம்

waistcloth in Punjabi

a waistcloth
منجھ maṉjh, ਮੰਝ mañjh

Examples of waistcloth in a sentence

  • He was dressed in all the dignity of a woollen shirt, with a piece of fine "tapa" for a waistcloth, feet and legs bare.1897, Frank T. Bullen, The Cruise of the Cachalot:
  • Fresh leaves had been stripped from a bush and a tiny fragment or two indicated that the Ojibway had torn a piece from his deerskin waistcloth to fasten over the leaves.1916, Joseph Altsheler, The Hunters of the Hills:

Forms of waistcloth

pluralwaistcloths

Origin of waistcloth

From waist + cloth.

Questions about waistcloth

What does waistcloth mean?
Waistcloth means a cloth or garment worn around the waist.
What is waistcloth in Tamil?
Waistcloth in Tamil is மானக்லை, குண்டித்துணி, அந்தரீயம். See Waistcloth meaning in Tamil.
How do you use waistcloth in a sentence?
He was dressed in all the dignity of a woollen shirt, with a piece of fine "tapa" for a waistcloth, feet and legs bare.
What part of speech is waistcloth?
Waistcloth is a noun.
What is the plural of waistcloth?
The plural of waistcloth is waistcloths.

Words near waistcloth in the dictionary

  1. waistbands
  2. waistbelt
  3. waistbelts
  4. waistboat
  5. waistboats
  6. waistcloth
  7. waistcloths
  8. waistcoat
  9. waistcoated
  10. waistcoateer
  11. waistcoateers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: waistcloth (page history and authors); waistcloth (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); منجھ (Punjabi) (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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