rebozo

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noun

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.

OriginSpanish rebozo →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nounrebozo (plural rebozos)

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.

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

    1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 6, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 4

Origin

  1. Spanishrebozo
  2. Spanishrebozo
  3. Englishrebozo

Borrowed from Spanish rebozo.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

boozer
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APA

rebozo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rebozo

MLA

“rebozo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rebozo. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rebozo,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rebozo.

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