gaucho in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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gaucho <pl gauchos> [Am ˈɡaʊtʃoʊ, Brit ˈɡaʊtʃəʊ, ˈɡɔːtʃəʊ] N

gaucho

gaucho m

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gauchesco (gauchesca)

gaucho attr

gaucho

A peasant of the pampas of Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. Modern gauchos work as foremen on farms and ranches and take part in rodeos.
Gauchos fought for Argentine independence from Spain, but later became involved in political disputes and suffered persecution.
A literary genre, literatura gauchesca, grew up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The most famous work is Martín Fierro, an epic poem by José Hernández about the misfortunes of an Argentine gaucho when the huge pampas are divided into ranches.
Traditionally gauchos wore baggy trousers, leather chaps, a chiripá, a garment that went over their trousers and came up around their waist, boots, a hat, a leather waistcoat, a belt with a large buckle. They carried a facón - a large knife with a curved blade, and used boleadoras, ropes weighted at each end and thrown like lassos, to catch cattle.

gaucho

gaucho (South American cowboy)

carreras cuatreras

gaucho horse races pl

gauchismo

literary movement concerned with gaucho life

un gaucho matrero

a gaucho on the run from the law

gaucho in the PONS Dictionary

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agaucharse

to imitate or dress like a gaucho

tras tantos años de vida en el campo se agauchó mucho

after so many years in the country he/she had become very gaucho-like

gaucho (-a)

gaucho

facón

gaucho's knife

payador

gaucho minstrel

payada

improvised gaucho minstrel song

gauchear

to live as a gaucho

gaucho Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to imitate or dress like a gaucho

agaucharse

after so many years in the country he/she had become very gaucho-like

tras tantos años de vida en el campo se agauchó mucho