barong tagalog
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of barong tagalog
From Tagalog baro ng tagalog literally, “Tagalog upper garment”
Example Sentences
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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
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
In Manila, where he donned a green-embroidered, white barong tagalog before addressing a huge youth rally, he shook hands with more than 5,000 students.
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
Such outfits--a Philippine barong tagalog in 1996 and an Indonesian batik shirt in 1994--are now high on the agenda.
From Time Magazine Archive
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