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Example sentences for: calavera

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El Teatro Campesino in its performances always has a calavera character that either represents La Muerte (death) or typifies a disturbing alter ego of one of the main characters.
A Mexican tradition of the late nineteenth century was the publication of a poetic broadside that was called a calavera.
The calavera is now an integral element of Mexican and Chicano folk art and it adorns murals, stationery, postcards, party invitations and decorations, and even religious art.
For a small fee, people could hire a composer to write a calavera for them and draw a skeleton to go with it.
The calavera has become the symbol of the downtrodden, who must laugh at life in order to survive it.