reboso
Americannoun
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rebosos
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As she stood on the sill of the low window, we had a full view of her person—from the satin slipper to the reboso that long loosely over her forehead.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
I have often wished to see this! a reboso it is?
From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by L. Evans
She draped a reboso about her head, and went over to the house of Graciosa La Cruz.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Draw the reboso about thy head now, and let us go down.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Over her coarse smock and gown she wore a black cotton reboso.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The women tore off their rebosos and waved them like banners, smashed their fans, and stamped their little feet; the men whirled their sombreros with supple wrists.
From The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
She spun the threads with which the rebosos were woven.
From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by L. Evans
“There are men,” replied Miss Hathaway, as several dark beribboned heads appeared above the rebosos.
From A Daughter of the Vine by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The girls wore white or flowered silk or muslin gowns, and rebosos about their heads; the brown ugly dueñas, ever at their sides, were foils they would gladly have dispensed with.
From The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Wrapped in muslin rebosos, they sit in their buggy adorned with flowers, pure and innocent, unconscious of their own beauty.
From Sielanka: An Idyll by Thomas H. Bullick
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