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serape

[suh-rah-pee] / səˈrɑ pi /


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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

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

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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