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Rectangular vs Lavalava - What's the difference?

rectangular | lavalava |

As an adjective rectangular

is having a shape like a rectangle.

As a noun lavalava is

an everyday item of clothing traditionally worn by polynesians and other oceanic peoples, consisting of a single rectangular cloth worn as a skirt, secured around the waist by an overhand knotting of the upper corners.

rectangular

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Having a shape like a rectangle.
  • Having axes that meet each other with right angles.

    • lavalava

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia lavalava)
  • An everyday item of clothing traditionally worn by Polynesians and other Oceanic peoples, consisting of a single rectangular cloth worn as a skirt, secured around the waist by an overhand knotting of the upper corners.
  • * 1997 , Michel Picard, Robert Everett Wood, Tourism, ethnicity, and the state in Asian and Pacific societies?
    • Some tourists buy Samoan identity merchandise as novelties, but most prefer sloganless items such as printed lavalavas .
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