gaucho
Americannoun
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gauchos
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a cowboy of the South American pampas, usually of mixed Spanish and Indigenous ancestry.
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Also called gaucho pants. gauchos. wide, calf-length trousers for men or women modeled after the trousers worn by South American gauchos.
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Etymology
Origin of gaucho
First recorded in 1815–25; from South American Spanish, from Arawak cachu “comrade”
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South America - Middle School
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The tale is believed to be based on the life of the gaucho Antonio Mamerto Gil Núñez, though little is known about his life.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
There is even rural “gauchopunk” complete with gaucho androids dreaming of electric emus, conjured by Argentine writer Michel Nieva in a tongue-in-cheek reference to Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2023
It was brought to Argentina's sprawling plains, or pampas, by British immigrants in the late 1800s, where it found a home alongside the South American country's iconic gaucho cowboys.
From Reuters ● Apr. 12, 2022
Now, the gaucho singer-songwriter has returned to the music market with “Dios los cría,” much of which was recorded between 2016 and 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
To see the gaucho at his best, that is where he will be found most interesting, one must go where he lives utterly free from all restraint, even the restraint of association.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
Strip away the Humvees and athletic fields, and the base could be an Argentine estancia, home to gauchos instead of guardsmen.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2019
West’s collection of freaks, cons, cowboys and unpredictable women in his 1939 “The Day of the Locust” predates Steely Dan’s own collection of freaks, cons and gauchos by 33 years.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2018
Across the great landscape of understanding are the gauchos, at once both rugged and audacious.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2018
“We used to see gauchos making their own bridles, knives, belts, all by hand. We decided to do the same thing, but in the city.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2018
They also make bows and arrows, spears and what the gauchos call "the lost bola."
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
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