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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; < MexSp sarape
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se·ra·pe also sa·ra·pe   (sə-rä'pē, -rāp'ē)   
n.  A long blanketlike shawl, often brightly colored and fringed at the ends, worn especially by Mexican men.

[American Spanish sarape.]
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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