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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

Try the huarache azteca, furnished with thin, salty scraps of cecina, grilled onions, nopales, avocado and a drizzle of fresh salsa verde.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 2019

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

My preferred carriers are fresher: the griddled gordita, with its crispy shell popped open like the hood of a Dodge, and the griddled huarache, its masa base simultaneously crusty and soft as polenta.

From Washington Post Apr. 1, 2015

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

She hated my huaraches and scuffed shoes, and always insisted on ironing my clothes even after I learned how to do so.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 28, 2024

Her kitchen makes its own tortillas, gorditas, huaraches and sopes from blue-corn masa.

From Washington Post Jul. 1, 2022

The deep cracks in the back of his heels were as black as the soles of his huaraches.

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez




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