serape

Example Sentences

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He extended the shop’s Southwestern motif into Zuni: whitewashed walls and clay-tile floors; piles of desert sand and ribbed saguaro skeletons; serape textiles with lush stripes in fruit-peel colors.

From New York Times • May 28, 2021

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

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