rebozo

noun

re·​bo·​zo ri-ˈbō-(ˌ)zō  -(ˌ)sō 

plural rebozos

: a long scarf worn chiefly by Mexican women

Examples of rebozo in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Sarandos presented President Sheinbaum with a shawl, or rebozo, worn by the character Damiana in Pedro Páramo. — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025

This information is given to Juan by a woman wearing a rebozo, a long flat piece of cloth, which is generally folded and worn about the head and shoulders. — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024

Wearing a deep shade of blue, Denise Romero sticks to tradition by always wearing a big skirt and rebozo, while her husband sports a feathery, skeleton mask. — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024

There’s also the portrait of her, taken in 1939, wearing a vibrantly magenta rebozo (a shawl-like wrap) — stoic, celestial, her arms crossed. — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023

Days after her grandmother died, Guzman slept in an unwashed rebozo (shawl) of hers. — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2022

In the Yucatán Bonato had worked with local artisans on textiles, leather bags and traditional rebozo scarves. — Jay Cheshes, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022

Her reimagination of the painter's green dress, with a red rebozo shawl, is among the many costumes going on display at the Academy Museum. — CNN, 16 July 2021

Word History

Etymology

Spanish, shawl, from rebozar to muffle, alteration of embozar to muffle, probably from Vulgar Latin *imbucciare, from Latin in- + bucca cheek

First Known Use

1807, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for rebozo

• kozo

Kids Definition

rebozo

noun

re·​bo·​zo ri-ˈbō-zō 

-sō

plural rebozos

: a long scarf worn chiefly by Mexican women