Bolivian Spanish word
la chuspa
Meaning: small woven pouch
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Greeting at any hour and saying your nameLesson 1, level A0
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A little handwoven bag, traditionally used to carry coca leaves or small items. It's the kind of piece a casera may later add as a yapa (a small gift with a purchase), a thread the situation picks up in a later chapter.
A little Andean woven pouch, traditionally for carrying small things. Here doña Elsa adds one as the yapa, a fitting gift alongside the aguayo, and a piece of the same highland textile tradition.
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