Illustration of serape
variants
or less commonly sarape
: a colorful woolen shawl worn over the shoulders especially by Mexican men
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In 2019, she was arrested again after jumping over the wall of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s mansion while wearing a serape and sombrero.
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Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
In 2018, Valero worked with the Tamayo brothers, of one of the last remaining serape-weaving families, to create Bouquets, a series of 12 collagelike rugs that pushed formal boundaries with semicircles and ellipses that overspilled the rectangular perimeter’s edges.
—New York Times, 11 Feb. 2021
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.
—Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
This includes a cheeky copy of Bernie Sanders wearing a face mask at the presidential inauguration, except he’s wrapped in a colorful serape and there’s a large margarita on a table next to him.
—Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 22 June 2021
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Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
In 2018, Valero worked with the Tamayo brothers, of one of the last remaining serape-weaving families, to create Bouquets, a series of 12 collagelike rugs that pushed formal boundaries with semicircles and ellipses that overspilled the rectangular perimeter’s edges.
—New York Times, 11 Feb. 2021
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.
—Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
This includes a cheeky copy of Bernie Sanders wearing a face mask at the presidential inauguration, except he’s wrapped in a colorful serape and there’s a large margarita on a table next to him.
—Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 22 June 2021
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“Serape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/serape. Accessed 15 Feb. 2025.
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