The deceased is then brought up attired in his waistcloth and ornaments, with a straw cigar fixed in his mouth, and, having been placed on the mat in the same manner as when alive, his betel box is set by his side.
"On the Equator"
Harry de Windt
"These things are well enough for the immature, and the sight of an unnaturally stout official having an interminable succession of white rabbits produced from the various recesses of his waistcloth admittedly melts the austerity of the superficial of both sexes.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
The brown figure, in linen waistcloth and yellow turban, suggests that Indian personality which has survived ages of exile on these lonely heights.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings