serape

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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

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

He ran straight into them — denim blazing with silver embroidery, serape dresses, gaucho pants with side vents of creamy silk.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2010

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