- a variation of chaparajos.
chaparejos
Britishplural noun
Etymology
Origin of chaparejos
from Mexican Spanish
Example Sentences
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Last week, a bronze-skinned buckaroo, with a flashing red neckerchief above his blue shirt, with shining leather chaparejos and crimson saddle-blanket, dashed up from a Western skyline on a snorting, piebald cow-pony.
From Time Magazine Archive
The municipally chartered pack-train, with cooks and supplies for man and beast, numbered over sixty animals, and chaparejos and cowboys, real and near, were numerous.
From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock
They look a wild lot, with their bear-skin chaparejos and semi-civilized trappings, galloping to and fro in and about the village.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Thomas Stevens
The ragged one thrust his hands in the pockets of his chaparejos.
From The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins
Not wishing to be too hard on his pardner, the Colonel added: "I lay it all to the chaparejos myself."
From The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins
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