horo
noun
horo is a noun meaning “A large cloak worn by Japanese warriors to protect against arrows” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-R-O, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of horo is horos.
What does horo mean?
noun
- 1
A large cloak worn by Japanese warriors to protect against arrows.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of horo
- horos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is horo?
Horo appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does horo come from?
Borrowed from Japanese 母衣(ほろ) (horo, “cloak”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).