A length of cotton or other light fabric wrapped about the body as a sarong, worn from the waist by men and full-length by women from the Melanesian Islands.
苏禄裙（美拉尼西亚群岛上男子穿的半身围裙和女子穿的全身裙）
Example sentencesExamples
Heading into court in traditional Fijian sulu skirt, Speight looked calmly confident.
I had flown 16 hours and more than 8,000 miles from New York, and I thought that I had landed in the '60s, everywhere there were smiling men and women clad in colorful sulus, sporting Afros, and exchanging a robust ‘Bula!’
Traditional Fijian clothing for men is a native kilt called a sulu.
Finiki, 68, is barefoot and wears a bright orange sulu, an orange tropical shirt, and a straw hat.
A senior man beats a log drum to summon the village to afternoon prayer; women in ‘Mother Hubbard’ dresses and men in sulu wraps file into the stone Methodist church and Sweet Jesus hymns waft out.
Origin
Fijian.
Definition of sulu in US English:
sulu
nounˈso͞olo͞o
A length of cotton or other light fabric wrapped about the body as a sarong, worn from the waist by men and full-length by women from the Melanesian Islands.
苏禄裙（美拉尼西亚群岛上男子穿的半身围裙和女子穿的全身裙）
Example sentencesExamples
Finiki, 68, is barefoot and wears a bright orange sulu, an orange tropical shirt, and a straw hat.
I had flown 16 hours and more than 8,000 miles from New York, and I thought that I had landed in the '60s, everywhere there were smiling men and women clad in colorful sulus, sporting Afros, and exchanging a robust ‘Bula!’
Traditional Fijian clothing for men is a native kilt called a sulu.
A senior man beats a log drum to summon the village to afternoon prayer; women in ‘Mother Hubbard’ dresses and men in sulu wraps file into the stone Methodist church and Sweet Jesus hymns waft out.
Heading into court in traditional Fijian sulu skirt, Speight looked calmly confident.