Definitions for pareu

pareu pa·re·u

Spelling: [pahr-ey-oo]
IPA: /ˈpɑr eɪˌu/

Pareu is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in pareu (aepru).

Definitions for pareu

noun

  1. lavalava.
  2. Also, pareo. a length of cloth, especially of a brightly colored print, wrapped on the body like a lavalava and worn by women as a cover-up, skirt, dress, or the like.

Origin of pareu

Borrowed into English from Tahitian around 1855-60

Examples for pareu

When at home he wore only a pareu, but he would put on trousers when he went out.

I seized his tail quickly, and as he swept around to free himself I had time to draw the knife from my pareu and stab him.

He wore only a pareu, and was tattooed from toenails to hair-roots.

Nevertheless, as I smoked at ease in my pareu upon the paepae of my simple hosts I felt some misgivings rise in me.

Beneath it they wore a pareu, which passed twice around the waist and hung to the calves of the legs.

Along the way we met Kanakas, looking very cool, dressed only in their pareu cloth.

At last, wrapping a pareu about me, I went down my trail to the valley road.

His knife was in his pareu, which, to leave his legs unhampered, he had rolled and tucked in until it was no more than a G-string.

I made a tourniquet of a strip of my pareu and, with a small harpoon, twisted it until the flow of blood was stopped.

I made a tourniquet of a strip of my pareu and, with a small harpoon, 30 twisted it until the flow of blood was stopped.

Word Value for pareu
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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