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gaucho

Part American Indian, part Spanish cattle herder of the Argentine and Uruguayan pampas. The gauchos supported the Argentine ruler, Ortiz de Rosas, 1835–52.



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The Gaucho holds the smallest of the three in his hand, and whirls the other two round and round his head; then, taking aim, sends them like chain shot revolving through the air.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
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