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- Spanish · borrowed fromarpillera
- English todayarpillera
Borrowed from Spanish arpillera (literally “burlap”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
arpillera
Today it means: A patchwork picture made predominantly by women in Chile, especially as a form of underground protest during the military dictatorship (1973–90) of Augusto Pinochet. Full definition →
Spanish arpillera