rebozo
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.
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Pronunciation edit
- 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 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