rebozo
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See also: rebozó
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]rebozo (plural rebozos)
- 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
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /reˈboθo/ [reˈβ̞o.θo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /reˈboso/ [reˈβ̞o.so]
- Rhymes: -oθo
- Rhymes: -oso
- Syllabification: re‧bo‧zo
Etymology 1
[edit]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
[edit]rebozo m (plural rebozos)
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]rebozo
Further reading
[edit]- “rebozo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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