guayabera
noun
a sport shirt or lightweight jacket, often with several large front pockets, modeled upon a loose, smocklike shirt originally worn by men in Cuba.
guayaberas
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pluralof guayabera.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Unlike most politicians, who dress to the nines, Burton wore ties reluctantly and showed up at meetings with governors wearing guayaberas, rarely with his hair in place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2025
Six feet one and heavyset, with a slight stoop and closely cropped white hair, Moretta favors black button-down shirts or white guayaberas when not in his priestly cassock.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2023
The visual transition from modern-day straphangers to Cuban country folk in guayaberas and flowing white dresses, marching out of the subway and into the snow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2021
Brides wear ternos, and grooms, guayaberas, or lightweight open neck shirts.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2019
Up and down the street were entrepreneurial immigrants in colorful clothes—embroidered guayaberas and flowing kente and spray-painted T-shirts—hustling everything from mix tapes to T-shirts to incense from crowded sidewalk tables.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
