jicara

See also: jícara

English

Etymology

Spanish jícara

Noun

jicara (plural jicaras)

  1. A cup or bowl made from the fruit of the calabash tree.
    • 1883, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft‎, volume 2, San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company:
      The four priests received the blood of the victim in four jicaras, or bowls, made from the shell of a certain fruit, and descending one after the other to the courtyard, sprinkled the blood with their right hands in the direction of the cardinal points.
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