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‖ rebozo, reboso|reˈboθo, -ˈbozo| Also rebosa, ribosa. [Sp. rebozo.] A shawl or long scarf used by Spanish-American women as a covering for the head and shoulders.
1807J. Pinkerton Mod. Geogr. (rev. ed.) III. 185 The Mexican ladies..when they are at home, or go out in a carriage,..wear what is called the rebozo, or muffler, like the shawls now used at Madrid. 1844J. Gregg Commerce of Prairies I. 216 A Mexican female is scarcely ever seen without her rebozo or shawl. 1850B. Taylor Eldorado II. ix. 52 The men in their white shirts, and the women in their bewitching rebosas. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. ix. 70 Swarthy ill-favoured faces appear behind the folds of dingy rebozos. 1888Literary World (Boston) 18 Aug. 262/1 The women move shyly, covered to the eyes in the long blue scarf, or reboso, which is part of the national costume. 1927W. Cather Death comes for Archbishop i. ii. 25 She was dressed in black, with a white apron, and a black reboso over her head, like a Mexican woman of the poor. 1947J. Steinbeck Wayward Bus 235 The little modest dark girls in blue rebozos. 1956R. Bradbury October Country 19 Behind him came women in black rebozos. 1977Guider July 310/3 The dancers wear white dresses with coloured belts and rebozos tied from hand to hand. |