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If you want to learn how to age a bottle cap so you can make it into a folk charm called a milagro, there's a whole step-by-step recipe.
Missoula Independent Erika Fredrickson 2010
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A milagro is a charm that the women import from Mexico.
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You can buy tacos, corn (on the cob or off), ice cream, atole (a drink made from corn mush), beer and soft drinks; indulge your sweet tooth with numerous confections; add some crockery to your kitchen supply; purchase a "milagro" (miracle; a tiny replica of an arm or eye or animal, which can then be taken to the church and left with a donation, in hopes that the Virgin of Guadalupe will intercede to affect a cure).
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Something happened on that porch, when Maria whispered “milagro.”
Tell us we’re home Martina Budhos 2010
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She shouted for them to leave us alone, that it was my first time, and she had to show me the whole milagro del amor a lo mexicano!
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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Something happened on that porch, when Maria whispered “milagro.”
Tell us we’re home Martina Budhos 2010
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She shouted for them to leave us alone, that it was my first time, and she had to show me the whole milagro del amor a lo mexicano!
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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She shouted for them to leave us alone, that it was my first time, and she had to show me the whole milagro del amor a lo mexicano!
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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"Now the demand from San Miguel had arrived and [Don Antonio] promised him to have the milagro painted ... if this time he would cure her."
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Another Baja milagro, since I had been trying since December to get on the boat online and/or via telephone from the States, and we very nearly drove through Nogales for the lack of a reservation.
vendingmachine commented on the word milagro
A "milagro" (miracle; a tiny replica of an arm or eye or animal, which can then be taken to the church and left with a donation). Sometimes made with "aged" bottle caps.
September 3, 2016