capataz
Americannoun
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capataces
plural
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The capataz, or boss of the ranch, agreed.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
Under the tuition of Yambo, our capataz, and the other 228 Gauchos, we became adepts in the use of both bolas and lasso.
From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Gordon Stables
Sandie Donaldson, who with the capataz occupied the next tent, came rushing in, then all the Gauchos and even the dogs.
From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Gordon Stables
The best Gauchos had been chosen for us, and every one of them could talk English after a fashion, especially our bold but not handsome capataz, or cacique Yambo.
From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Gordon Stables
Arriving there in the sweltering midday heat, we were met by an English friend and his capataz, the latter dressed in his enormous slouch hat, deerskin apron, and silver spurs weighing probably a full kilo.
From Argentina from a British Point of View by Various
In 1949 it insisted that workers unloading cargoes for Clark Field should be paid direct, not by the capataces.
From Time Magazine Archive
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