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Ex-voto

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Ex`-vo´to    (~töz)
n.1.An offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow.
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But at a late stage, the owner of the chapel, which was built as an ex-voto during the Russian army's invasion and looting of Ticino in the late eighteenth century, backed out under sudden pressure from the village of Vira and its citizens.
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Against a makeshift wall assembled from flattened tins, corrugated cardboard, and broken-down crates, a woman - wearing a muslin shift, her hair braided in the Frida Kahloesque style of Tehuantepec - appears like a beseeching figure in an ex-voto painting.
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