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Ponchos

Poncho \Pon"cho\, n.; pl. Ponchos. [Sp.]

  1. A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted troops in the United States service.

  2. A trade name for camlets, or stout worsteds.

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ponchos

n. (plural of poncho English)

Usage examples of "ponchos".

There were glare-orange ovals on the backs of the ponchos, a blue thread along the sleeves.

Firebird shorts and ponchos would mark them anywhere outside the Winds.

All these ponchos and shorts and blankets cycling endlessly through the big machine that was never turned off.

The gatherers were a row of statues, their ponchos drooping from raised arms, their hoods facing the oncoming pair of spectre birds.

He scrambled back and helped Rafik, then Willametta, then Amnon place rocks to display flame-colored ponchos and shorts against dark wet rock.

They're looking for thirteen ponchos, not fourteen, and if we meet a spectre or something, someone has to pose!

They'll match every firebird in the area, but firebirds don't gather the way Our ponchos are gathered-"

They wore ponchos in tuftberry-juice scarlet, closed between the legs.

He tried to enter with the stack of ponchos, and the Grad almost managed to catch him in the closing door.

They had moored the ponchos and the smoked and cleaned carcass of a salmon bird to fixtures along the cargo hold walls.

Anthon and Debby and Ilsa were curled into a friendly, cuddling, shivering ball, with the spare ponchos pulled around them.

Minya got her the last of the ponchos and they wrapped it around her, then tied a strip of cloth round her head and throat.

Still shaken by the impact, they forced their way through the doors, fast, and flailed with ponchos at the smoldering fires until they went out.

Parties of marines are staggering along, carrying heat casualties who lie in stretchers we have made by cutting poles with machetes and then doubling ponchos over the poles.

Two marines sat in a sandbagged emplacement, their ponchos still slick and shining from the rain.