sarape
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"Picture a sarape, or Mexican blanket," he says.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has everything in it from a rifle and pistol holster to a sarape, a sombrero and the snow-capped Mexican cordillera.
From Time Magazine Archive
Loneliness wraps me like a dark sarape, but I spill my heart to nobody.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
Men and women are the same everywhere, whether enveloped in the graceful mantilla, or wearing Herbault's last, whether wrapped in Spanish cloak, or Mexican sarape, or Scottish plaid.
From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)
The lady was young and in black, with a heavy wrap thrown about her, a Mexican sarape with wide stripes.
From Jack 1877 by Sherwood, Mary Neal
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