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sugar skull

[ shoog-er skuhl ]

noun

  1. a decorated model skull seen during Day of the Dead celebrations, usually molded or sculpted from sugar or clay and often placed on an altar with a deceased person's name on it.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sugar skull1

First recorded in 1930–35; loan translation of Spanish calavera de azúcar

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