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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• pacos
  plural

Example Sentences

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paco pacos

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 llama and the paco or alpaca, although reared extensively by the Incas of Peru, are not certainly known to have been introduced into North America.

From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)

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

A glossary of the Chilean protests would be incomplete without mentioning pacos, a term for Chile’s militarized police force the Carabineros, and milicos, slang for the military.

From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2019

We’d eat graveyard snow cones—lime, orange, grape, cherry mixed together—and pacos from the Crystal Pistol booth—seasoned beef in a cocoon of hot fry bread, the orange grease squirting and burning the insides of our cheeks.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth