serape

[suh-rah-pee] Origin

se·ra·pe

[suh-rah-pee]
noun
a blanketlike shawl or wrap, often of brightly colored wool, as worn in Latin America.
Also, sarape.


Origin:
1825–35, Americanism; < Mexican Spanish sarape
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Serape is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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serape (səˈrɑːpɪ)
 
n
1.  a blanket-like shawl often of brightly-coloured wool worn by men in Latin America
2.  a large shawl worn around the shoulders by women as a fashion garment
 
[C19 Mexican Spanish]

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serape
type of shawl, 1834, from Mex.Sp. sarape, probably from Nahuatl, but exact source difficult to identify source because there is no -r- sound in Nahuatl.
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