alpagat

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish alpargata.

Noun[edit]

alpagat (plural alpagats)

  1. (Trinidad and Tobago) A kind of sandal, alpargata.
    • 1988, Trinidad Carnival, page 78:
      Costumes are simple, the girls wearing full short skirts, blouses trimmed in swansdown, washikongs or alpagats, and decorated metallic paper crowns.
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