poncho
- a blanketlike cloak with a hole in the center to admit the head, originating in South America, now often worn as a raincoat.
Origin of poncho
Examples from the Web for poncho
Contemporary Examples of poncho
I wrapped my poncho around me for warmth and waited in the quiet darkness.
Several others claim to have seen a robust figure wearing a hat and a poncho crouched against a table in the library.
Soldiers either slept in poncho tents or inside their vehicles.
We Lost Soldiers in the Hunt for Bergdahl, a Guy Who Walked Off in the Dead of NightNathan Bradley Bethea
June 2, 2014
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Historical Examples of poncho
He had a beard, and on his shoulder a poncho, but that was all I knew.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
It had the appearance of a short fellow in a poncho and a big hat.
A Set of SixJoseph Conrad
I shall spread my poncho and blanket on the ground presently.
Uncle Sam's Boys in the PhilippinesH. Irving Hancock
On it you lay your shelter-half and fold it till it too is an oblong, smaller than the poncho.
At PlattsburgAllen French
Knudsen, with a groan, got out of bed and put on his poncho.
At PlattsburgAllen French
poncho
- a cloak of a kind originally worn in South America, made of a rectangular or circular piece of cloth, esp wool, with a hole in the middle to put the head through
Word Origin for poncho
Word Origin and History for poncho
type of blanket-like South American cloak, 1717, from American Spanish poncho, from Araucanian (Chile) pontho "woolen fabric," perhaps influenced by Spanish poncho (adj.), variant of pocho "discolored, faded."