tapadero

American  

[tap-uh-dair-oh] / ˌtæp əˈdɛər oʊ /

noun

tapaderos plural

1. tapadera.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• tapaderos
  plural

Example Sentences

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tapadero tapaderos

Embossed housings and "tapadero," hid the symmetry of their deer-like coursers.

From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Savage, Richard

Feeling anything but as confident as he looked, Rob boldly put his foot in the heavy wooden stirrup with its big leather tapadero covering, and swung into the saddle.

From The Boy Scouts On The Range by Payson, Lieut. Howard

He had also a riata, a cuerta, and tapaderos, and frequently employed these Spanish names for the objects.

From Lin McLean by Wister, Owen

He tossed his head, champed his bit, and pranced sideways along the streets of Flagstaff, manifestly to show off his brand new black Mexican saddle, with silver trappings and tapaderos.

From Tales of lonely trails by Grey, Zane

I noticed it wore an expensive Mexican saddle, all heavy embossed leather, with a high cantle, silver ornaments, big tapaderos on the stirrups, and a horsehair 170 bridle with silver bit.

From Track's End Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There As Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full by Carleton, Clifford

He went to the loose hay heaped at the wall and began to kick it about, half expecting to have his boot strike against the silver tipped horn or the heavy tapaderos.

From Six Feet Four by Gregory, Jackson

Hondo, tapaderos, bad hombre, tecolote, bronco, maverick, side-winder—rapaciously he seized upon them as bits of the argot of fairyland.

From The Desert Valley by Gregory, Jackson