morada
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moradas
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Though secretive about their ceremonies, the group’s leader, Jeremiah Martinez, opened the door to the morada revealing a simple altar with crucifixes and a few wooden pews.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 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
The brothers meet in plain, stucco chapter houses called moradas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023
Also layered on the landscape are historic Spanish land grants, large ranches, traditional irrigation systems known as acequias, and moradas, which are meeting spaces for a religious brotherhood known as penitentes.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2022
There are two kinds of camotes, the yellow and the violet; the latter are called Camotes moradas.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Thomasina Ross
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