rebozo

See also: rebozó

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rebozo.

Noun

rebozo (plural rebozos)

1. A woman's garment of Mexico, a rectangular piece of fabric worn as a scarf or shawl and sometimes used to carry children or goods.
   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 6, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 4:

     Strange crossroad towns on top of the world rolled by, with shawled Indians watching us from under hatbrims and rebozos.

Further reading

• rebozo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Boozer, boozer

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /reˈboθo/ [reˈβ̞o.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /reˈboso/ [reˈβ̞o.so]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -oθo
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: re‧bo‧zo

Etymology 1

Deverbal from rebozar, apparently related to boca (“mouth”), since rebozar has the sense of cover almost whole face, or mouth and nose, using a kind of headscarf.

Noun

rebozo m (plural rebozos)

1. (clothing) rebozo (scarf or shawl)

Etymology 2

Verb

rebozo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rebozar

Further reading

• “rebozo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014