rebosos
- plural of reboso.
Example Sentences
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The veranda was crowded with girls, the sparkling faces draped in black mantillas or bright rebosos, the full gay gowns fluttering in the breeze.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Women with rebosos, were carrying water, and walking amongst them.
From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)
Twelve rebosos were made for her; Doña Trinidad gave her one of her finest mantillas; Chonita, the white satin embroidered with poppies, for which she had conceived a capricious dislike.
From The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
They are muffled beyond the possibility of recognition—the richer in their silken shawls and mantas, the poorer in their slate-coloured rebosos; under the folds of which each carries a little bound volume—the “misa.”
From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by Evans, L.
Girls in gay muslins and silk rebosos were sitting beneath the arches of the corridor or flitting under the trees where the yellow apricots hung among the green leaves.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
