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^[1], 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.