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Rancheros

Ranchero \Ran*che"ro\ (r[a^]n*ch[=a]"r[-o]), n.; pl. Rancheros (r[a^]n*ch[=a]"r[=o]z). [Sp.] [Mexico & Western U. S.]

  1. A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.

  2. The owner and occupant of a ranch or rancho.

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rancheros

n. (plural of ranchero English)

Usage examples of "rancheros".

Loren let it slip that Pitt had a taste for huevos rancheros, so Polly made him enough to feed five ranch hands.

They call it La Mesa de los Viejos because Viejos means 'Old Ones' in Spanish and the early Mexican rancheros were the first to notice all the cliff dwellings full of old dead Indians.

You know how much range it takes to raise stock in a land of a tad less rain, and I know from my own cow-herding days that you rancheros could use more because you raise stock Spanish-style.

He'd been worried about free-ranging hogs the night before, knowing how Mexican rancheros grazed more kinds of critters, from cows to poultry, than most Anglo stockmen.

Don't know what you'd call either, seeing the Mex brands look more like kids' scribbles than the letters and numbers real rancheros register.

She turned and retrieved two dishes of huevos rancheros with chorizo and refried beans heavy on the salsa from the oven and placed them on the table.