serape

American  

[suh-rah-pee] / səˈrɑ pi /

noun

1. a blanketlike shawl or wrap, often of brightly colored wool, as worn in Latin America.

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serape British  

/ səˈrɑːpɪ /

noun

1. a blanket-like shawl often of brightly-coloured wool worn by men in Latin America

2. a large shawl worn around the shoulders by women as a fashion garment

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Etymology

Origin of serape

1825–35, < Mexican Spanish sarape

Example Sentences

Nearby, a long table was draped in a Mexican serape and topped with platters of pan dulce, while next to it, two women pushed around sizzling pieces of chicken and beef on gas griddles.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022

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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