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sugar skull
[ shoog-er skuhl ]
noun
- a decorated model skull seen during Day of the Dead celebrations, usually molded or sculpted from sugar or clay and often placed on an altar with a deceased person's name on it.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sugar skull1
First recorded in 1930–35; loan translation of Spanish calavera de azúcar
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