chaparajos
Meaning of chaparajos
plural noun
leather trousers without a seat, worn by a cowboy over ordinary trousers to protect the legs.
mid 19th century: from Mexican Spanish chaparreras, from chaparra ‘dwarf evergreen oak’ (with reference to protection from thorny vegetation: see chaparral); probably influenced by Spanish aparejo ‘equipment’.
Information about chaparajos
- It is a name.
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Hyphenation of chaparajos
cha-para-jos
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- chaparajos is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with chaparajos
gajos, cuiajos, Lajos, majos, Tapajos, Navajos, navajos
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