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huarache

[wuh-rah-chee, wah-rah-che] / wəˈrɑ tʃi, wɑˈrɑ tʃɛ /
NOUN
sandal
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Content creator Vivian Fabiola pointed out that while the shoe is labeled “Oaxaca,” its huarache design appears to be more closely tied to the state of Michoacán.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2025

I loved the huarache with pork al pastor, a lightly griddled plank of masa topped pizzalike with crisp-edged shards of spit-roasted pork, chili-stoked pineapple and avocado.

From Seattle Times Aug. 3, 2017

The huarache, stuffed with a microscopic layer of refried beans, deservedly brings up the rear: The oblong length of fried flatbread was too flaccid to provide much support to its poor toppings.

From Washington Post Dec. 15, 2016

Is Faith & Flower redeemed by the charred, crisp carnitas pizza, whose tart salsa verde really does make the pizza seem like an antojitos platform in the school of the huarache?

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 13, 2014

On a hot September morning, I wake up in my childhood bed, slip on the huarache shoes my brother, Carlton, brought me back from Mexico.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

One May morning in 1961, 21-year-old Manuel Alvarado strapped on his huaraches, stuffed three changes of clothes and a thin blanket into a nylon tote bag and bid his parents farewell.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 10, 2025

The Oaxaca Slip-On was inspired by traditional leather sandals known as huaraches made by Indigenous artisans in Mexico.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2025

Vazquez, in a Natalia Lafourcade T-shirt and jeans, red lipstick and multicolored huaraches, struggled to remember the Spanish word for “fainted.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 17, 2020

Freshness is key to a molcajete, says Mirna Montero-Alvarado, co-founder of Taqueria Habanero, the family-run business that in 2014 made 14th Street NW a destination for true Mexican tacos, sopes and huaraches.

From Washington Post Feb. 25, 2019

By the time I reach the end of the drive, my huaraches and ankles are covered with fine yellow dust.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett




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