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Word Ver - calaca, the name of the country Stephano was from.
DRAKE HOGESTYN, Living Comic Book Character David Campbell 2007
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Mary Jane and calaca, which greets customers in the front entrance of her Galeria.
Mary Jane and calaca, which greets customers in the front entrance of her Galeria. 1996
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Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño get in the spirit with larger-than-life papier-mâché calaca
Matador Network 2009
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The participants who wear calaca masks and facepaint dress as the same characters every year.
LAist 2008
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Other than than the dancing newlyweds, the shrieking ghost is the only calaca figure to interact with the crowd, suddenly jumping into people's faces and screaming in a way that is simultaneously terrifying and hilarious.
LAist 2008
ry commented on the word calaca
the jaunty reaperman of El Dia de los Muertos, or such is my understanding. I could be wrong.
December 6, 2012