Meaning & use

Tanga

noun·Advanced

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A style of very brief underwear or swimwear bottom that covers slightly more than a G-string.

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The store's swimwear section included several tanga bikini bottoms.

She preferred tangas to full-coverage briefs.

A note on using this word

The word entered English from Portuguese and Spanish, where it originally described a loincloth before its modern fashion sense developed.

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