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

Along with saint candles and bouquets, fans left bags of Dodger peanuts, a blue and white striped serape, a baseball with “It’s time for Dodger Baseball” inked above the stitching.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 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

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

But you have certainly seen pictures of Audrey Hepburn in that outfit – a uniform as iconic as Clint Eastwood's serape or The Terminator's leather jacket.

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2011

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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