vaquero
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9.9
- noun
- /væˈkɛroʊ/
- US
:
vaquero
- I got plenty of vaqueros to help us make the crossing.
- Mexican vaquero
Examples
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"I was only one of the youths who listened as the vaqueros told their ghost tales, but I alone stayed when the fire died.
Fiction book (1991) -
The Anglo-American cowboy learned his trade from the vaquero.
Academic text (1994) -
That vaquero is more than a fair hand.
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Tomorrow we get all the vaqueros and find him!
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I lived with the vaqueros.
Fiction book (1991) -
What kind of food was in the cookpot around which the vaqueros were standing with plates in their hands?
Fiction book (1990) -
At night, the vaqueros would tell tales around the campfire.
Fiction book (1991) -
American cowboy and Mexican charro traditions are both nineteenth-century adaptations of the Mexican vaquero tradition.
Academic text (1994) -
The informal riding and roping competitions that drew vaqueros and hacendados from neighboring haciendas developed into more formal competitions in the late eighteenth century.
Academic text (1994) -
As he grew up, he got work as a vaquero on a nearby ranch.
Synonyms
458
1.8
A person who looks after cattle, often riding horses
9
9.8
A cowboy in the western United States, especially in California or Nevada
9
6.8
A person who owns or works on a ranch
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9.9
A person from the Llanos plains, often a cowboy who herds cattle
Surface Forms
Etymology
Vaquero comes from the Spanish word vaca 'cow' plus the ending -ero 'one who works with', so it literally means a 'cow worker'. So a vaquero is a Spanish-style cowboy, and his riding and roping skills helped shape the American cowboy.