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paco

American  
[pah-koh] / ˈpɑ koʊ /

noun

pacos plural
  1. alpaca.

  2. a rust-colored ore composed of iron oxide and tiny particles of silver.


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There are the eight female paco from which a season’s worth of eggs are taken, the humbleness of the plastic tanks in which the hatchlings live.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2015

Over lunch—farmed paco fire-roasted with yucca inside segments of bamboo, with heliconia-leaf plugs at each end—Don Alberto held forth movingly on the effects of climate change that he’d seen in his lifetime.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2015

The alpaco, or paco, is smaller than the llama.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina

C  cent tsehnt hundred.    citi tsee-tee to cite, quote.    colo tso-lo inch.    paco pah-tso peace.    pacienco pah-tsee-ehn-tso patience.    oficiro o-fee-tsee-ro officer.    proceso pro-tseh-so lawsuit.

From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by Cox, George

Li kuŝis sur dolĉa herbo, kaj sentis sin korpe tute mallacigata, kaj granda paco regis en lia animo.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John

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