'loincloth' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It refers to a piece of cloth that covers the loins or the lower part of the body from the waist to the thighs. It is often worn as a garment by ancient civilization or as a traditional garment in some cultures. Example: The tribespeople were dressed in traditional loincloths and feather headdresses as they performed a traditional dance around the fire.
The thug guru is shaven-headed Eduardo Ciannelli (the original Diamond Louis of "The Front Page"), who wears a loincloth and chants "Kill!
When the last clouds wagon-train off, loincloth and invocation will be the one hope for last woman and last man discovering she's pregnant.
DECKED out in a leopard-skin mantle and an animal-pelt loincloth together with white designer sneakers, South Africa's 67-year-old president, Jacob Zuma, celebrated his marriage to his third concurrent wife (and fifth bride in all) in a grand Zulu ceremony attended by some 3,000 guests at his family home deep in rural KwaZulu-Natal.
A YOUNG man in a leather loincloth saunters past a woman dressed like Alice in Wonderland.
A humble man of the earth, he speaks softly and still wears his dhothi, a traditional loincloth, when he tills his soil.
BEYOND the octagon of Aachen cathedral lies the golden shrine of St Mary, holding ancient relics that are displayed every seven years: the cloak of the Virgin, the swaddling clothes of the infant Jesus, the loincloth of the Saviour on the Cross and the cloth that held the severed head of John the Baptist.
Two of the individuals interred in the tomb were of elite status, probably leaders, as indicated by their adornment; both bodies were dusted in red pigment, and one was clothed in a loincloth of pearl beads.
Digambara monks take the same "great vows" as do the Shvetambara, but, in acknowledgement of a much more intense interpretation of the vow of nonpossession, full-fledged Digambara monks remain naked, while lower-grade Digambara monks wear a loincloth and keep with them one piece of cloth not more than 1.5 yards (1.4 metres) long.
If shown small in stature, the sculptures may depict him as a deformed dwarf or as a brahmacharin (monastic student), dressed in the deerskin, loincloth, and sacred thread of the student, and with the student's tufted hair.
By 1750 bce women were wearing a long bell-shaped skirt, often in a series of flounces, over a loincloth; with this, they wore a bolero-like jacket that had elbow-length sleeves but was open in front, leaving the breasts bare.
