huaracheとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish huarache, guarache, from Purepecha kwarachi (“sandal”).

発音

• IPA: /wəˈrɑːtʃi/

名詞

huarache (plural huaraches)

1. (footwear) A Mexican sandal.
   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 2, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:

     My shoes, damn fool that I am, were Mexican huaraches, plantlike sieves not fit for the rainy night of America and the raw road night.

   • 1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter VIII, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:

     The huaraches he wore looked like dried and blackened fish lashed to the floors of his feet.

2. (cooking) A food similar in shape to such a sandal, consisting of a fried masa dough base with a topping, typically salsa, potato, meat, or cheese.
   • 2023 July 7, Rick A. Martínez, “For the Best Tortillas (and Gorditas and Tetelas), You Need Fresh Masa”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 7 July 2023:

     They’re then ground into a homogeneous dough that holds whatever shape you choose to give it: thin circles for tortillas, thicker ones for gorditas and sopes, plump ovals for huaraches and triangles for black-bean stuffed tetelas.

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