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serape

[suh-rah-pee] / səˈrɑ pi /


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Along with saint candles and bouquets, fans left bags of Dodger peanuts, a blue and white striped serape, a baseball with “It’s time for Dodger Baseball” inked above the stitching.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2022

Filters selected for swimming holes and rest rooms; aspirational, high-res photographs featured serape blankets and speckled tin mugs.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019

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

But you have certainly seen pictures of Audrey Hepburn in that outfit – a uniform as iconic as Clint Eastwood's serape or The Terminator's leather jacket.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2011

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

The Fins lights ringing the stadium painted the top deck in red, white and blue while outside vendors hawked U.S. and Mexican flags, scarfs and brightly colored serapes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 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

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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