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  • noun Plural form of ruana.

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Examples

  • In Angahuan beautiful rebozos, blankets, echequemos, ruanas, and heavy woven fabrics are adorned with birds, flowers and geometric patterns.

    The artesanias of Michoacan - an introduction 2008

  • In Angahuan beautiful rebozos, blankets, echequemos, ruanas, and heavy woven fabrics are adorned with birds, flowers and geometric patterns.

    The artesanias of Michoacan - an introduction 2008

  • In Angahuan beautiful rebozos, blankets, echequemos, ruanas, and heavy woven fabrics are adorned with birds, flowers and geometric patterns.

    The artesanias of Michoacan - an introduction 2008

  • They were short and barefoot, and all of them wore felt hats, coca bags, and woolen ruanas, or ponchos.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • For the most part they appeared meek and obedient, a faceless urban peasantry, quaint in their woolen ruanas and straw hats, hidden away by night in barrios named for the saints or squatter shacks that clung to the edge of the mountains.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • They were short and barefoot, and all of them wore felt hats, coca bags, and woolen ruanas, or ponchos.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • For the most part they appeared meek and obedient, a faceless urban peasantry, quaint in their woolen ruanas and straw hats, hidden away by night in barrios named for the saints or squatter shacks that clung to the edge of the mountains.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • The natives wear these shirts of marima in the rainy season: they have the form of the ponchos and ruanas of cotton, which are so common in New Grenada, at Quito, and in

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • The natives wear these shirts of marima in the rainy season: they have the form of the ponchos and ruanas of cotton, which are so common in New Grenada, at

    Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

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