Definitions
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- noun sumo The
belt worn byrikishi duringtraining and incompetition
Etymologies
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Examples
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They wear what's called a mawashi, which is essentially a beefed-up loincloth.
AMPONTAN 2010
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One might think that anyone can get big and put on a diaper - it's actually called a "mawashi" - and slap another fat guy around a ring a few times.
Stars and Stripes 2009
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Before the match begins, each wrestler, clad only in a silk belt in various colors called mawashi, stamps his feet in a wide stance – a gesture reported to drive away evil spirits.
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Sumo rikishi wear a stylized loincloth called a mawashi during their bouts.
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The former All Black watched from a safe distance as his players, wearing the buttock-bearing "mawashi" loin cloth worn by sumo wrestlers, took a frightful battering.
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The former All Black watched from a safe distance as his players, wearing the buttock-bearing "mawashi" loin cloth worn by sumo wrestlers, took a frightful battering.
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Through all this, the only stipulation was that women wear covering leotards underneath their mawashi, the much-hearalded loincloths worn plainly by men.
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I am not koli but I had one mawashi who is like mother to me and she is koli.
Koli Veg Taat (Thal Part III) Anjali 2007
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I was hoping that the women might wrestle in mawashi, the same stylized thongs the men wear, but no such luck.
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I was hoping that the women might wrestle in mawashi, the same stylized thongs the men wear, but no such luck.
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