The yarn is seemingly still attached to the sarape from which it was unraveled. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » Phantom Sightings] Reference
Leaving the sarape factory, head further south on Hidalgo to the Museum of the Birds. From Wordnik.com. [Saltillo, Mexico - color, culture and colonial charm] Reference
Salvador Medina explains how the looms at the sarape factor have been used to create masterpieces. From Wordnik.com. [Salvador Medina explains how the looms at the sarape factor have been used to create masterpieces. One sarape takes a week to a week and a half to create.] Reference
The sand came through mi sarape and tore the skin off our bodies, and yet we never ever lost faith. From Wordnik.com. [Crazy Loco Love] Reference
One of its former owners, Allen W. Lloyd, was instrumental in reviving Jocotepec's traditional sarape industry. From Wordnik.com. [A day in Jocotepec] Reference
From the cathedral, head south on Calle Hidalgo to El sarape de Saltillo, which maintains the city's centuries-old sarape tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Saltillo, Mexico - color, culture and colonial charm] Reference
Two months after joining the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2006, he was presented with a sarape and bottle of tequila before a game on Cinco de Mayo. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Happened to Nomar?] Reference
I'd have liked to see Em strap on a sixer and a sarape. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
The morning was so cold, that every manga and sarape was put in requisition. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico] Reference
When the light became stronger, I perceived that he carried under his sarape a large basket of fine naranjas (oranges), which no doubt the honest administrador thought I was inquiring after. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country] Reference
Two gray and decrepit policemen rode with him and half way out stopped at a stone hut to arrest the perpetrator of the deed and bring him along, wrapped in the customary red sarape and indifference. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond] Reference
I know this because I'm from Mexico where, I can assure you, our towns 'architecture has gone away from adobe colonial style, pick-up trucks and cars have replaced donkeys and windbreakers have replaced the sarape. From Wordnik.com. [Empire News] Reference
He had not gone far before he was surrounded by some dozen of léperos with knives, who would, no doubt, have robbed and despatched him, but that in tearing off his sarape they discovered his uniform, and not being very skilled in military accoutrements, concluded him to be an officer on the part of the government. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country] Reference
Spanish cloak; and the opportunity which both sarape and reboso afford for concealing large knives about the person, as also for enveloping both face and figure so as to be scarcely recognizable, is no doubt the cause of the many murders which take place amongst the lower orders, in moments of excitement and drunkenness. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico] Reference
I’d have liked to see Em strap on a sixer and a sarape. From Wordnik.com. [The Emin-actor picks his next movie | EW.com] Reference
"I wish," he said, "that you, who can speak Spanish better than I, would ask these black devils who have just come to relieve me at the pantheon why my sarape and my sword have disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [Maximilian in Mexico] Reference
Not only words have been taken in, but also many phrases, though most of the latter are converted into simple words, e. g., olraite (= all right), jaitun (= hightoned), jamachi (= how much), sarape (= shut up), enejau (= anyhow). From Wordnik.com. [Appendix 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 3. Spanish] Reference
One sarape takes a week to a week and. From Wordnik.com. [Salvador Medina explains how the looms at the sarape factor have been used to create masterpieces. One sarape takes a week to a week and a half to create.] Reference
It depends on the person making the sarape. From Wordnik.com. [Saltillo, Mexico - color, culture and colonial charm] Reference
Huaraches on his feet, a sarape on his shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Suspicious stranger visits a rural tacos al vapor stand] Reference
Santa Claus, 54 sapolio, 195 sarape, 404 sarge, 370 sashay, 319 sasparella, 318 sass, 106 sassy, 316 sat, 274 satisfaction, 110 sauce, 106 saucy, 316 sauer-braten, 251 sauerkraut, 39, 54, 103, 199, 251 saunter, 111 savagerous, 91 saviour, 227 savor, 221 savory, 227 savour, 221 saw, v. From Wordnik.com. [Mencken, H] Reference
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