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serape

NOUN
  1. a long brightly colored shawl; worn mainly by Mexican men

How To Use serape In A Sentence

  • Starting in the 1860s the serrated diamond motif of Mexican-made serapes began to appear on Navajo blankets.
  • He was dressed in full ranchero costume, with its rich broidery and trappings; and instead of the usual "serape," he wore a purple _manga_ -- a more graceful, as well as costlier garment. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico
  • The bagged ice helped to numb the pain, but leaked all over my Donna Karan serape. I Was Don Ho's Ho
  • For anyone who took a childhood field trip to California missions, flowers in the colors of a Mexican serape probably remain a vivid memory.
  • He went back with the roses wrapped in a serape, and when he placed it before the bishops, the roses were there and the image of the Guadalupana was on his serape.
  • The image, which sprang entirely from his mind's eye, was of an old man in serape, seated on the street. The landscape art and gallery of Enrique Velázquez, Ajijic.
  • Traditional peasant attire for men consisted of pajama-like trousers and tunic of unbleached cotton, a serape (used as both a blanket and a cloak), sandals, and wide sombrero.
  • The olive - skinned townspeople, less than one thousand in 1844, clung to their Spanish language and Mexican culture and dressed in serapes, sombreros, rebozos, and other garb characteristic of communities south of the Rio Grande.
  • As he stood so, looking at the serapes and a hanging rack of dolina blankets with his hands clasped behind his back like a patron in an art gallery (and blinking back tears all the while), there came a light tap on his shoulder. Wizard and Glass
  • No cooking this morning, I suppose," remarked Steve, when Murray shook him out of the nice nap he had snatched, wrapped in his "serape," or The Talking Leaves An Indian Story
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