raiment-wrapped

Updated: July 13, 2026

The bosom, elaborately bound downwards, is covered with a square bit of stuff, or a calico pagne most ungraceful of raiment-wrapped under the arms, and extending to the knees: "In longitude'tis sorely scanty, But 'tis their best, and they are vaunty." The poor and the slaves content themselves with grass cloth.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2