Vejigante
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vejigante-175-18557441
title:
Vejigante
text:
A vejigante is a folkloric character in Puerto Rican festival celebrations, mainly seen during Carnival time. Traditional colors of the Vejigantes were green, yellow and red, or red and black. Today, Vejigantes wear brightly colored, ornate masks corresponding to the colors of their costumes that detail bat-like wings. The term vejigante derives from the words vejiga (bladder) and gigante (giant) due to custom of blowing up and painting cow bladders. The masks are often linked to festivals that
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Folkloric character featured in Puerto Rican festival celebrations
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vejigante
date created:
2006-02-06T19:23:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T13:08:41Z
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