Definition of "huipil" [huipil]

• A loose brocaded blouse worn by Maya women in Mexico and Central America. (noun)

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• "Putting on a huipil was a whole initiation; in doing so one repeated daily the voyage from the interior to the exterior."
• "The huipil was the one that she chose to wear in the longed—for ceremony of baptism."
• "Pac-Chen is where I met Maria Muyil, a 30-something wearing a huipil, which is a woven white dress trimmed with intricate and colorful embroidery."