serape
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Her house was very small but cheery and cozy, with crochet, flannel and serape coverings on the furniture and bright lemon-yellow cabinets in the kitchen.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
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
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
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
The Fins lights ringing the stadium painted the top deck in red, white and blue while outside vendors hawked U.S. and Mexican flags, scarfs and brightly colored serapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
He made serapes and scarfs, shawls and blankets.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2021
They wore brightly colored serapes and headdresses festooned with little balls, and they were laughing and singing and playing tambourines and flutes, and grabbing onto his legs.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2018
Colorful serapes warm the beds, and mimbre baskets from a Native American reservation provide light.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2018
Walking on campus one day with my mother and father, I reEshed the surprised look on their faces when they saw some Hispanic students wearing serapes pass by.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
