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Answer : PINATA
The origin of the piñata is thought to date back over 700 years ago to Asia. Marco Polo discovered the Chinese fashioning figures of cows, oxen or even buffaloes, covering them with colored paper and adorning them with harnesses and trappings to greet the New Year. When they knocked the figure hard with sticks of various colors, seeds spilled forth. The remains were then burned and people gathered the ashes to bring good luck throughout the year.
When the custom passed into Europe in the 14th century, it was adapted to the celebration of Lent. The first Sunday became ‘Piñata Sunday’. The Italian word ‘pignatta’ means “fragile pot.” Originally, piñatas fashioned without a base resembled clay containers used for carrying water.
The custom then spread to Spain, the first Sunday in Lent becoming a fiesta called the ‘Dance of the Piñata’. The Spanish used a clay container called “la olla”, the Spanish word for pot. At first, “la olla” was not decorated. Later, ribbons, tinsel and fringed paper were added and wrapped around the pot.
More Clues
- ICED IN Stuck until a thaw
- PINATA A papier-mache party decoration filled with weets, hung up and struck with a stick until it breaks open
- ICE RUN Result of a thaw
- SLUSHY Like winter roads during a thaw
- ICICLE Danger during a thaw
- HEATER A warming apparatus
- POSSET So step out for a warming drink
- LATINO One in a melting pot
- FUSION A melting
- DRIPPY Like a melting ice cream cone
- EGGNOG A warming drink, for example — good number had before start of game
- EL NINO A warming of the eastern tropical Pacific
- ENAMEL Found in garden, a melting pot of coats, baths and teeth
- ARABIA A large peninsular region that was mainly under Ottoman control until a revolt, assisted by the British and French governments, during the First World War
- ESCROW An agreement in which a third party keeps money or property until a contract is fulfilled
- SHELVE Put off until a later time
- FOR NOW Until a later time
- DATSUN Nissan’s marque name from 1933 until a gradual change to Nissan intensified in the 1980s
- SPRING FORD Place to wade after a thaw?
- DRIP Sign of a thaw
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