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Definition of Grass skirt
1. Noun. A skirt made of long blades of grass.
Definition of Grass skirt
1. Noun. a skirt made from long dried grass, or synthetic material resembling it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Literary usage of Grass skirt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Island Song Lyrics Volume 6 by Larry W. Jones (2004)
"Little Hula grass skirt (02/06/2004) (song#2598) She was wearing a little hula
grass skirt Strolling by my little grass shack in Maui Eating fish and poi, ..."
2. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1875)
"... Marshall Islands ; grass skirt, from Ponape, Ascension Island, made from banana
leaf, worn by the females of all the islands of Micronesia, ..."
3. Island Song Lyrics by Larry W. Jones (2003)
"Must Be Hula Love (08/26/2002) (#188) I'm in love with the girl with the grass
skirt on She does the hula with flirt that's all her own I really would bike ..."
4. General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War by George C. Kenney (1997)
"If you were thinking of dusky but fair sarong- or grass-skirt-clad girls, flitting
among the palm trees, you were in for another shock. ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1857)
"While the inundation prevails, reeds and coarse grass skirt the border of the
water, and a few stunted tamarisk bushes flourish for a time at a little ..."
6. Final Report of Investigations Among the Indians of the Southwestern United by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1892)
"... left of the road patches covered with excellent grass skirt the carton of the
river, which runs about east-northeast to west-southwest in a rocky cleft ..."
7. The United Service (1889)
"All the potter's work is done by the ladies, who wear the grass-skirt, and
represent all other articles of dress by abundant tattoo. ..."
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