alpagat
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish alpargata.
Noun edit
alpagat (plural alpagats)
- (Trinidad and Tobago) A kind of sandal, alpargata.
- 1988, Trinidad Carnival, page 78:
- Costumes are simple, the girls wearing full short skirts, blouses trimmed in swansdown, washikongs or alpagats, and decorated metallic paper crowns.