Usage examples (4)

• It was also why so many women wore modest ankle-length skirts and why men wore knee-length ones -- the traditional garments called lavalava -- and why tourists weren't...
• The Samoan lavalava is a wraparound "skirt" worn by Polynesian men and hardly a girlish trend.
• And then how they marched up here, every man in a new black lavalava, some forty strong, to decorate the grave?
• "The clothing worn by the men and woman was nothing but the 'lavalava,'