I’ve always insisted that the holoku is the most charming garment ever invented for women. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London] Reference
She was clad entirely in white, and looked very young and quite tall in the sweeping folds of a holoku of elaborate simplicity and apparent shapelessness. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XV] Reference
The mother, a slender hapa-haole (half-white), clad in a loose-flowing holoku of white muslin, hastened away swiftly among the banana and papaia trees to remove the babe's noise by distance. From Wordnik.com. [THE BONES OF KAHEKILI] Reference
It was only Kamaikui, standing there a massive figure in the dim doorway, a bronze statue clad in a holoku. From Wordnik.com. [The House Without a Key]
Valley ', versus' Nuanu ';' lei ', vs.' le 'for a flower garland;' holoku 'vs.' holaku 'for a Hawaiian black dress;' Wailua ', vs.' Waialua '. From Wordnik.com. [Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands] Reference
The combatants were the more easy to be distinguished, because the one was stripped to the ridi and the other wore a holoku (sacque) of some lively colour. From Wordnik.com. [In the South Seas] Reference
When John Quincy and his aunt were leaving the dining-room after breakfast Kamaikui, stiff and dignified in a freshly-laundered holoku, approached the boy. From Wordnik.com. [The House Without a Key]
He knew the holoku in the home of its origin, where, on the lanais of Hawaii, it gave charm to a plain woman and double-folded the charm of a charming woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London] Reference
The mother, a slender hapa-haole (half white), clad in a loose - flowing holoku of white muslin, hastened away swiftly among the banana and papaia trees to remove the babe's noise by distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Bones of Kahekili] Reference
Tuxedos and gowns or elegant pantsuits will be a must for the mainland formal events, although there is leeway for "national costumes," such as elegant holoku representative of Hawaiian-style formal. From Wordnik.com. [Starbulletin Headlines] Reference
Down by the outrigger canoes, where they lay hauled out on the sand, he saw men and women, Kanakas, reclining languorously, like lotus-eaters, the women in white holokus; and against one such holoku he saw the dark head of the steersman of the canoe resting upon the woman's shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Pride] Reference
He was irritated by the love-laugh of the woman, by the steersman with pillowed head on the white holoku, by the couples that walked on the beach, by the officers and women that danced, and by the voices of the singers singing of love, and his brother singing there with them under the hau tree. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Pride] Reference
Shorter than Bella was Martha, a trifle, but the merest trifle, less queenly of port; but beautifully and generously proportioned, mellowed rather than dismantled by years, her Polynesian chiefess figure eloquent and glorious under the satisfying lines of a half-fitting, grandly sweeping, black-silk holoku trimmed with black lace more costly than a Paris gown. From Wordnik.com. [On the Makaloa Mat] Reference
In the midst, between these rival camps of troubadours, a bench was placed; and here the king and queen throned it, some two or three feet above the crowded audience on the floor -- Tebureimoa as usual in his striped pyjamas with a satchel strapped across one shoulder, doubtless (in the island fashion) to contain his pistols; the queen in a purple holoku, her abundant hair let down, a fan in her hand. From Wordnik.com. [In the South Seas] Reference
A holoku of elaborate simplicity and apparent shapelessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London] Reference
“Then it was my holoku and not I,” she retorted. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London] Reference
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