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A peineta is a large female head ornament held to the hair by a row of teeth and usually worn under a mantilla, or lace covering the head. It is traditional in Spain and the rest of the Hispanic world. [1] The hair ornament, worn by women, consists of a convex body and a set of teeth that affix it to hair worn in a bun.
With Spain being largely a Christian country, the mantilla is a Spanish adaption of the Christian practice of women wearing headcoverings during prayer and worship (cf. 1 Corinthians 11:2–10). [3] As Christian missionaries from Spain entered the Americas, the wearing of the mantilla as a Christian headcovering was brought to the New World. [3]
This is a list of political offices which have been held by a woman, with details of the first woman holder of each office. It is ordered by the countries in South America and by dates of appointment. Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office.
She then goes to the well; three boars' heads come up in the water surface and ask the girl to wipe and comb them. The hunchbacked girl denies their request and brings home only muddy water. The beautiful girl walks the same path, but is courteous to the witch-woman and fulfills the boars' heads' request and fetches a bucket of clear water.
Castizo [a] (fem. Castiza) was a racial category used in 18th-century Spanish America to refer to people who were three-quarters Spanish by descent and one-quarter Amerindian. The category of castizo was widely recognized by the 18th century in colonial Mexico [ 1 ] and was a standard category portrayed in eighteenth-century casta paintings .
Another optical illusion has taken the internet by storm. This may join the ranks of the dress and the woman with a "missing" leg.This one involves the opposite: a woman with supposedly too many legs.
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Hand-colored photography by Luis Marquez (photographer), 1937. Mexico. The name comes from Spanish, from the verb that means to cover or envelope oneself. [19] However, there have been indigenous names for it as well, such as "ciua nequealtlapacholoni" in colonial-era Nahuatl, which means "that which touches a woman or something like her;" "mini-mahua" among the Otomi; and, in the Nahuatl of ...