sarape
Americannoun
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sarapes
plural
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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
"Picture a sarape, or Mexican blanket," he says.
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
The morning was so cold, that every manga and sarape was put in requisition.
From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
There was something clean and level about his personality which couldn’t have been hid under a sarape.
From Children of the Desert by Louis Dodge
Screen up, and hosts Noel and Matt appear in sarapes and dorky sombreros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
The escort had put on their sarapes, and with their high helmets and feathers, went galloping along, and dashing amongst the trees and shrubs.
From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
The coach rattled off through the streets, dashed through the Alameda, and gradually we began to shake down, and, by a little arrangement of cloaks and sarapes, to be less crowded.
From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
Our escort slept in the piazza, rolled in their sarapes.
From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
There were also various men buried in their sarapes.
From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
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