Definition of Tapalo

1. a scarf worn in Latin-American countries [n -LOS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tapalo

tap in
tap into
tap out
tap up
tap water
tap wrench
tapa
tapacolo
tapacolos
tapaculo
tapaculos
tapadera
tapaderas
tapadero
tapaderos
tapalo (current term)
tapalos
tapas
tapaslike
tapayaxin
tapayaxins
tapazol
tapdance
tape
tape-record
tape-recorded
tape-worm
tape cartridge
tape deck
tape delay

Literary usage of Tapalo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Zulu Yesterday and To-day: Twenty-nine Years in South Africa by Gertrude Rachel Hance (1916)
"Each morning, just at sunrise, came the call, " tapalo, tapalo" (prayer), which echoed softly from hill to hill. ..."

2. Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico by Reau Campbell (1899)
"The middle classes wear a black tapalo, a shawl which is both wrap and headgear. ... Under the tapalo or reboso is many a Venus; the corset is unknown, ..."

3. The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution by David Hume (1848)
"... favour of the House, and desired that some of the members might inform that great personage of his true 1 Si rixa est, M tu pulsas, ega tapalo tantum. ..."

4. Mexico in 1827 by Henry George Ward (1828)
"As there was little hope that this would be speedily effected, I took the youngest child from its nurse, and making a sort of scarf with a tapalo, ..."

5. Mexico by Henry George Ward (1829)
"that this would be speedily effected, I took the youngest child from its nurse, and making a sort of scarf with a tapalo, or long Indian shawl that she lent ..."

6. A History of Modern Europe by Charles Alan Fyffe (1892)
"Up the tapalo*. Ned in the Block House. A Story of Pioneer Life no The Young Ranchers. The Lost Trail. Camp-Fire and Wigwam. Lost in the Wilds. ..."

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