sarape
Americannoun
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sarapes
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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
With his horse and trappings, his sarape and blanket, a piece of beef and a tortilla, the Californian is content, so far as his personal comforts are concerned.
From What I Saw in California by Bryant, Edwin
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)
Screen up, and hosts Noel and Matt appear in sarapes and dorky sombreros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
They are saddling the horses, strapping on the sarapes behind the saddles, taking down and packing up our lits de voyage, and loading the mules, all which is a work of time.
From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)
Groups of sandaled mine peons wound noiselessly away, a few rods apart, along undulating trails, the red of their sarapes and the yellow of their immense hats giving the predominating hue.
From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Franck, Harry Alverson
Coachmen and footmen have their great-coats prepared to draw on; and all horsemen have their sarapes strapped behind their saddles, in which, with their shining leather hats, they can brave the storm.
From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)
When we left Reyes it began to rain, and we were glad to accept the covering of sarapes, as we galloped over the plains.
From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)
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