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
What he saw was a tall slim young man, in chaparejos and sombrero, the inevitable "repeater" at his hip, solitarily engaged in the process of breaking a bronco.
From Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Lillibridge, Will
Dade, kneeling awkwardly in his heavy, bearskin chaparejos, picked at the bonds with the point of his knife.
From The Gringos by Fischer, Anton Otto
The ragged one thrust his hands in the pockets of his chaparejos.
From The Magnetic North by Robins, Elizabeth
He took a pair of leather chaparejos from the bed, regarded them doubtfully and threw them back.
From Stepsons of Light by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove
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