barong tagalog
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of barong tagalog
From Tagalog baro ng tagalog literally, “Tagalog upper garment”
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The Philippines’ barong tagalog, a partially see-through, embroidered shirt sewn from pineapple fiber and silk, was featured in the 1996 summit and again in 2015.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
You showed him wearing the barong tagalog, which is the traditional formal wear of Filipinos.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the visiting statesmen save General Park, unrelenting in a business suit, sported elaborately embroidered barong tagalog shirts worn outside the trousers; the ladies were supplied by Imelda with butterfly-sleeved balintawak and patadyong dresses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then a soft rain began to fall, and the demonstrators, mindful of their frilly barong tagalog shirts, hastily dispersed.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Manila there was an embroidered barong tagalog for him to wear; in Djakarta, white-costumed Javanese dancers strewed frangipani blossoms in the presidential path.
From Time Magazine Archive
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