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A rebozo is a long woven cloth garment often worn by Mexican women and traditional associated with Mexican national identity.
Rebozo Quotes in Pedro Páramo
The Pedro Páramo quotes below are all either spoken by Rebozo or refer to Rebozo. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Fragments 1-12, Pages 3-24
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As I passed a street corner, I saw a woman wrapped in her rebozo; she disappeared as if she had never existed. I started forward again, peering into the doorless houses. Again the woman in the rebozo crossed in front of me.
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Rebozo Term Timeline in Pedro Páramo
The timeline below shows where the term Rebozo appears in Pedro Páramo. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Fragments 1-12, Pages 3-24
...hear his own footsteps echoing off the abandoned buildings. He glimpses a woman wearing a rebozo, but like a ghost, she vanishes and then reappears inside one of the houses’ empty...
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Fragments 37-46, Pages 61-85
...He asks Damiana if she knows Dorotea—Damiana says that Dorotea is outside, singing to her rebozo, which she has bundled up like the baby she has lost. Miguel goes outside to...
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