gaucho
Americannoun
plural
gauchos-
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.
noun
Etymology
Origin of gaucho
First recorded in 1815–25; from South American Spanish, from Arawak cachu “comrade”
Example Sentences
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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
As such, this currency may meet a fate similar to the peso real and the gaucho.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 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
Is a gaucho life better than one on the Sceptred Isles?
From Salon • Jun. 4, 2019
The water-proof canvas sleeping-bag lined with fur would be warmer and lighter, but the gaucho will have none of it because his quillangos serve as overcoats by day.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by Spears, John R.
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