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gaucho
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Gaúcho or Corta Jaca is the Brazilian tango (maxixe) composed by Chiquinha Gonzaga , her most recorded song. It was a song from the burlesque operetta Zizinha Maxixe first staged in 1895. The original title being Gaucho , the song had the subtitle Dança ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1824, from Spanish, probably from a native South American language, compare Araucanian cauchu "wanderer."
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A shepherd, a gaucho , rode past us, ahead of a sea of sheep. ▪ His attempt to win southern gaucho voters by playing up family links there backfired when he got his regional expressions muddled up. ▪ I learnt about the exploited ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a cowboy of the South American pampas
Usage examples of gaucho.
And when at last we got up onto the altiplano, the great interior plateau, it was Zoe who called it the pampa, and maintained that we walked there among vast herds of invisible cattle, transparent cattle pastured on the spindrift snow, their gauchos the restless, merciless winds.
Gaucho said menacingly, prodding Signor Mantissa in the ribs with the corkscrew.
Gaucho caught sight of Cesare and Signor Mantissa, with two Judas trees, shuffling impatiently near the Posta Centrale.
The Gaucho, making his way aver to Signor Mantissa, saw Evan, the father, and the girl waiting nearby.
It was a mad, all-out sprint, with the Gaucho taking pot-shots at guards, Cesare waving his knife, Signor Mantissa flapping his arms wildly.
As in the inventories of the thirty towns I find no mention either of stockings or of shoes for Indians, with the exception of the low shoes and buckles worn by the Alferez Real, it seems the gorgeous costumes ended at the knee, and that these popinjays rode barefoot, with, perhaps, large iron Gaucho spurs fastened by strips of mare-hide round their ankles, and hanging down below their naked feet.
Un gaucho alza a un moreno con el cuchillo, lo tira como un saco de huesos, lo ve agonizar y morir, se agacha para limpiar el acero, desata su caballo y monta despacio, para que no piensen que huye.
The chief gaucho, Capas by name, assured them that guards would be put out for the night.
Un tesoro que la distracción del poeta arrumbara en el sótano: cuatrocientos noventa y siete ejemplares de la obra agotada El carnet de un gaucho.
El chico, después de agredir a su padre, tuvo un ataque de furia y tiró sus enseres de gaucho detrás de las hortensias.
Formento vio que el chico había tirado sus prendas de gaucho, comprendió que había llegado la hora.
Habló de municiones que no llegaron y de caballadas rendidas, de hombres dormidos y terrosos tejiendo laberintos de marchas, de Saravia, que pudo haber entrado en Montevideo y que se desvió, "porque el gaucho le teme a la ciudad", de hombres degollados hasta la nuca, de una guerra civil que me pareció menos la colisión de dos ejércitos que el sueño de un matrero.
Each wore the epitome of a themed outfit from his or her respective region, from the colorful dashiki of the African potentate to the wide sombrero and gauchos of the South American and the ten-gallon hat and embroidered cowboy suit of the North American.
He's decided he insulted you, by impugning your status as a Gentleman Gaucho, or whatever you are when you carry one of those hide-away whips.
The Argentinians had gone one better and brought their grooms as well, in flat-brimmed gaucho hats and leather breeches decorated with silver studs.