Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large, broad-bladed knife or cleaver used by the Moros of the southern Philippine Islands.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of cutting weapon similar to a cleaver, with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a knife resembling a cleaver; used in the Philippines
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Examples
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You know how often men of our band have been captured by the white men of the north to lie in prisons there, where death comes so slowly that a 'barong' blow would be paradise.
Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme
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Some Filipino men wear barongs also called barong Tagalogs, which are loose shirts worn outside the trousers; foreigners shouldn’t wear them.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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Some Filipino men wear barongs also called barong Tagalogs, which are loose shirts worn outside the trousers; foreigners shouldn’t wear them.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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Some Filipino men wear barongs also called barong Tagalogs, which are loose shirts worn outside the trousers; foreigners shouldn’t wear them.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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Video monitors in the galleries, meanwhile, will display scenes of a boar barong dance, a cremation ceremony, street processions, shadow puppetry, bare-chested men chanting around a fire.
Island Art, and All That Comes With It David Littlejohn 2011
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Video monitors in the galleries, meanwhile, will display scenes of a boar barong dance, a cremation ceremony, street processions, shadow puppetry, bare-chested men chanting around a fire.
Island Art, and All That Comes With It David Littlejohn 2011
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On the day I visit, dozens of El Shaddai officials were busily auctioning barong tagalogs (traditional Filipino dress shirts) once worn by Mr. Velarde.
Preacher Power 2010
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Long sleeves and no pockets at all, and you may well be in a Philippine barong tagalog.
Tropical And Topical 2008
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My wife then girlfriend gave me a barong as a gift for my birthday one year.
Birthday Steel Steve Perry 2007
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Marcos was almost always dressed in black trousers and a cool white barong shirt.
Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993
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