Definition of "ex-voto" [ex•-vo•to]

• An offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow. (noun)

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• "We'll be in Oaxaca in early September, so I really appreciate your suggestions - especially some of the smaller museums, and most especially the ex-voto collection, which I didn't know about."
• "As an art student, when Couper first came across an ex-voto painting -- a small blue painting on rippled tin -- he felt an immediate pull."
• "His ex-voto opens for us a window onto a part of daily life rarely visited by historians of colonial Spanish America."