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

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 Lieut. Howard Payson

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

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

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

From Lin McLean by Owen Wister

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 Zane Grey

The twigs and branches lisped and clattered against the carved leather tapaderos that hooded the stirrups.

From Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Anton Otto Fischer

He studied a minute, his eyes closed thoughtfully, then threw off the saddle and examined the sheepskin lining, tapaderos, jockeys, skirts.

From The She Boss A Western Story by Arthur Preston Hankins

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 Clifford Carleton