Definitions for sarong

sarong sa·rong

Spelling: [suh-rawng, -rong]
IPA: /səˈrɔŋ, -ˈrɒŋ/

Sarong is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in sarong (agnors).

Definitions for sarong

noun

  1. a loose-fitting skirtlike garment formed by wrapping a strip of cloth around the lower part of the body, worn by both men and women in the Malay Archipelago and certain islands of the Pacific Ocean.
  2. a cloth for such garments.

Origin of sarong

First recorded in 1825-35, sarong is from the Malay word sarung, sarong

Examples for sarong

I have been trying to buy a few things—a sarong, which is a putso which is a dhoti; a pipe; and a "damned Malayan kris."

She was dressed as usual in the Malay-Javanese costume of kabaya and sarong.

There were rich, cozy-looking linens, used for knee-length skirts -- inspired, perhaps, by a sarong.

Clothing is entirely vegetable, and the Malay sarong is found throughout the east; bark-cloth in the south-east and west.

His sarong was caught in the broken branch, and he hung with his head under water.

My shoulders feel bound, too, and as to the sarong it is scandalously short.

The sarong is more to the Malay than is the kilt to the Scotchman.

sarong photographed the creature in that overcoat, and spread the picture about the world.

The sarong is the gay colored, typical garment of the Malay.

She was dressed in the native fashion, sarong and kabaya, both of purest white.

Word Value for sarong
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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