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
The lady was young and in black, with a heavy wrap thrown about her, a Mexican sarape with wide stripes.
From Jack 1877 by Mary Neal Sherwood
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 Edwin Bryant
Screen up, and hosts Noel and Matt appear in sarapes and dorky sombreros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
As the stars dimmed and the horizon ahead took on a thin gray streak, peons wrapped in their sarapes passed now and then noiselessly in their soft leather huarachas close beside me.
From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck
Our escort slept in the piazza, rolled in their sarapes.
From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
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 Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
It is impossible to see anywhere a finer race of men than these rancheros—tall, strong, and well made, with their embroidered shirts, coarse sarapes, and dark blue pantaloons embroidered in gold.
From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
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