chaparejos

/ tʃapaˈraxos; tʃapaˈrexos; ˌʃæpəˈreɪəʊs; ˌʃæpəˈreɪəʊs /

plural noun

1. another name for chaps

Word History and Origins

Origin of chaparejos¹

from Mexican Spanish

Example Sentences

He was a cowboy,—fringed trousers, bearskin chaparejos, loose shirt, broad hat, Mexican spurs, and all.

From Project Gutenberg

He was dressed in the regulation costume of the craft—canvas pants and jacket, leather chaparejos, blue flannel shirt, and broad-brimmed white felt hat.

From Project Gutenberg

He wore a Mexican straw sombrero tied down over his ears with a red bandanna, a red flannel shirt, a long linen coat, huge spurs, and sheepskin chaparejos.

From Project Gutenberg

Last week, a bronze-skinned buckaroo, with a flashing red neckerchief above his blue shirt, with shining leather chaparejos and crimson saddle-blanket, dashed up from a Western skyline on a snorting, piebald cow-pony.

From Time Magazine Archive

At a little distance women washed, wove or sewed; the young men made buckskin, fashioned quirts, whips, ropes, bridle-reins, tie-straps, hobbles, pack-sacks and chaparejos of raw-hide; made cinches of horse-hair; wrought ox-yokes, plow-beams and other things needful for their simple husbandry.

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