reboso
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Over her coarse smock and gown she wore a black cotton reboso.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
"Mamacita, good night," and Benicia, who had fluttered into the house and found a reboso, kissed her mother, waved her hand to Brotherton, and stepped from the corridor to the street.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Its chief feature, the reboso, was a sort of scarf, like the mantilla of old Spain.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs
A reboso of silk was thrown over her head, falling over her shoulders in graceful undulations.
From Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora by Reid, Mayne
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 hung loosely over her forehead.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
Women with rebosos, were carrying water, and walking amongst them.
From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)
You will see the backs of pretty poblanas, with the end of their rebosos hanging gracefully over them; and the back of the poblana’s mother with the reboso ill arranged, and not over clean.
From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by Evans, L.
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 Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
A platform opposite ours was filled with the wives and daughters of agents and small farmers, little rancheras, with short white gowns and rebosos.
From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)
The matrons brought their stiff robes of red and yellow satin, the girls as many flowered silks and lawns, mantillas and rebosos, as the family carretas would hold.
From Rezanov by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
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