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

From Lin McLean by Wister, Owen

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 Fischer, Anton Otto

So closely did the rocks press in on each side that often his tapaderos brushed the sheer wall.

From Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure 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