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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 Ross, Thomasina