Definition of loincloth
: a cloth worn about the loins often as the sole article of clothing in warm climates
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Suzan-Lori Parks’s 1996 play, revived for the Signature by Lear deBessonet, constructs and deconstructs Saartjie Baartman, a South African woman brought to Europe in the early nineteenth century and exhibited in a loincloth as the Hottentot Venus.
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But canopy-walk attractions give those of us without the benefit of feathers, a loincloth or a bushy tail an opportunity to experience and learn about life at the top.
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First Known Use of loincloth
1856
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: a piece of cloth worn to cover the sexual organs especially by men in very hot parts of the world
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