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• a variation of chaparajos.

chaparejos

British  

/ tʃapaˈraxos, tʃapaˈrexos, ˌʃæpəˈreɪəʊs, ˌʃæpəˈreɪəʊs /

plural noun

1. another name for chaps

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Etymology

Origin of chaparejos

from Mexican Spanish

Example Sentences

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chaparejos

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 Murdock, Charles A. (Charles Albert)

With their chaparejos, or leather overalls, their big revolvers, their spurs, their bright silk handkerchiefs knotted loosely around their necks over the open collar of their flannel shirts, they made a brave show, indeed.

From The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

The ragged one thrust his hands in the pockets of his chaparejos.

From The Magnetic North by Robins, Elizabeth

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 Robins, Elizabeth