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grass skirt

NOUN
  1. a skirt made of long blades of grass

How To Use grass skirt In A Sentence

  • The yellow youth in the grass skirt was swaying beneath a mango tree, muttering to himself. Times, Sunday Times
  • Slightly shell-shocked, we are led to our hotel nursing sweet memories of swaying palms and grass skirts.
  • Long trains over trousers and grass skirts add another dimension.
  • For instance, many other Americans fail to realize that Puerto Ricans are natural-born American citizens or wrongly view their native island as a primitive tropical land of grass huts and grass skirts.
  • Among the more interesting of these are blackboy, also called grass-tree, a black-boled liliaceous tree with a spearlike flowerstalk and reedlike leaves resembling fuzzy hair or a grass skirt (but in New Zealand the same word refers to a type of peach), and black swan, a descriptive term. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 3
  • So to round off the evening the children were dressed in tie dyed costumes, grass skirts and beating drums performed two lively African dance songs.
  • Girls in grass skirts handed out fresh leis flown in from Hawaii.
  • John Lyons/The Wall Street Journal Images of Yawanawá Indians in grass skirts can help Aveda sell its popular Uruku line of lipsticks, eye shadows and facial bronzers, which use urukum, more commonly known as annatto, for body paint. Aveda's Skin-Deep Alliance in Brazil
  • Staff will be dressing in shorts, Hawaiian shirts, bikinis, flower garlands and grass skirts, and there will be hula-hooping, hula dancing and limbo competitions in aid of the Marie Curie Cancer Care Unit.
  • Her sister Caroline Laba, who works at the Bythesea Road store, was joined by colleagues for a day of grass skirts, leis and garish shirts.
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