We looked like poor Mexicans, dirty, and in torn clothing, my hair down my back and a reboso on my head. From Wordnik.com. [Murder in Mexico: an English family during the Revolution] Reference
We bought a very pretty sutunacua, and a black reboso. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country] Reference
She tossed her free foot, and played with the fringe of her reboso. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Fleece, a romance] Reference
Her reboso had fallen and a strand of her hair blew across his face. From Wordnik.com. [Rezánov] Reference
Her cheeks were as pink as her reboso, her great black eyes were dancing. From Wordnik.com. [Rezánov] Reference
But no answer was returned, and wrapping her face in her reboso, she sat down and wept. From Wordnik.com. [Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora] Reference
When the reboso drops off, or is displaced by chance, we see what they would be without it!. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico] Reference
As in other parts of Mexico, the women wore the enagua, or red petticoat, and reboso, and were all bare-legged. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
A woman without stays, with uncombed hair and reboso, had need to be very lovely, if she retain any attraction at all. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country] Reference
"Now's my chance!" she said; and throwing a white reboso coquettishly over her head, she slipped around the corner of the house. From Wordnik.com. [Ramona] Reference
It is called the sutunacua – over all is a black reboso, striped with white and blue, with a handsome silk fringe of the same colours. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country] Reference
The reboso, in itself graceful and convenient, has the disadvantage of being the greatest cloak for all untidiness, uncombed hair and raggedness, that ever was invented. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico] Reference
Over all is thrown a reboso, not over the head, but thrown on like a scarf; and they wear silk stockings, or more commonly no stockings, and white satin shoes trimmed with silver. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico] Reference
Santiago mio, wilt thou bring my reboso -- the white one? ". From Wordnik.com. [Rezánov] Reference
A flaming red "nagua," broidered chemisette, and reboso -- showed that she belonged to the poorer class of citizens. From Wordnik.com. [The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico] Reference
A reboso is thrown over all. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico] Reference
His hand in arranging the reboso touched hers. From Wordnik.com. [Rezánov] Reference
A reboso it is?. From Wordnik.com. [The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico] Reference
A scarf over their head, called a reboso. From Wordnik.com. [The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway] Reference
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