serape
Americannoun
noun
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a blanket-like shawl often of brightly-coloured wool worn by men in Latin America
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a large shawl worn around the shoulders by women as a fashion garment
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of serape
1825–35, < Mexican Spanish sarape
Example Sentences
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He extended the shop’s Southwestern motif into Zuni: whitewashed walls and clay-tile floors; piles of desert sand and ribbed saguaro skeletons; serape textiles with lush stripes in fruit-peel colors.
From New York Times • May 28, 2021
We sat in the back yard, wrapped in the restaurant’s serape blankets, eating house-made bread with cultured butter.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019
It’s an astounding mountain of Cubist structure cobbled together from the revolution-minded iconography of a serape, sombrero, straw mats and peasant gourds all anchored by the vertical slash of Emiliano Zapata’s rifle.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2016
Olson, who’d previously taught at Harvard, ran the college in its final years and frequently strode through campus bare chested, wearing a woolen serape.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2015
The guard wore a serape and a rusted miner’s helmet, and smoked a long-stemmed pipe.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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