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morada

American  
[mer-ah-duh, mawr-] / mərˈɑ də, mɔr- /

noun

moradas plural
  1. a chapel or meetinghouse of the Penitentes.


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Bela: Also, their lomo saltado and the chicha morada drink.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2023

Wash these dishes down with an Inca Kola or a pitcher of chicha morada, a purple corn drink.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 6, 2021

In the other hand was a cup of chicha morada, a Peruvian drink of purple corn brewed with pineapple peels, cinnamon and cloves, and darker than any wine, so purple it was nearly black.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2017

Young couples nibble on roast chicken and sip purple chicha morada, the national beverage.

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 14, 2010

A veritable treasure which they had unearthed, worth all the others put together, was a line of those violet cinchonas which the native exporters call Cascarilla morada, and the botanists Cinchona Boliviana.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various

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