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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

All are best chased with chicha morada, a centuries-old brew of purple corn, pineapple peel and thick cinnamon sticks.

From New York Times Dec. 5, 2019

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 Ross, Thomasina

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