lava-lava

lava-lava
lava-lava [lä′və lä′və]
n.
Samoan
a loincloth or skirt of printed cloth, worn by men and women on the South Sea islands

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la·va-la·va (läʹvə-läʹvə) n.
A garment consisting of a rectangular piece of printed cloth tied loosely around the waist that is worn by Polynesians and especially Samoans.
  [Samoan lāvalava, to put on clothes, clothes, from reduplication of Proto-Polynesian *lawa, to bind.]

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