serape
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Nearby, a long table was draped in a Mexican serape and topped with platters of pan dulce, while next to it, two women pushed around sizzling pieces of chicken and beef on gas griddles.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
We sat in the back yard, wrapped in the restaurant’s serape blankets, eating house-made bread with cultured butter.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
It’s an astounding mountain of Cubist structure cobbled together from the revolution-minded iconography of a serape, sombrero, straw mats and peasant gourds all anchored by the vertical slash of Emiliano Zapata’s rifle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2016
Olson, who’d previously taught at Harvard, ran the college in its final years and frequently strode through campus bare chested, wearing a woolen serape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2015
The guard wore a serape and a rusted miner’s helmet, and smoked a long-stemmed pipe.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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He made serapes and scarfs, shawls and blankets.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2021
They wore brightly colored serapes and headdresses festooned with little balls, and they were laughing and singing and playing tambourines and flutes, and grabbing onto his legs.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2018
Colorful serapes warm the beds, and mimbre baskets from a Native American reservation provide light.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2018
There are Pedro figurines in all sizes, a huge inventory of ceramics, hundreds of hats, and tables of colorful blankets called serapes.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 15, 2017
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Walking on campus one day with my mother and father, I reEshed the surprised look on their faces when they saw some Hispanic students wearing serapes pass by.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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