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poncho

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pon·cho  (pnch)
n. pl. pon·chos
1. A blanketlike cloak having a hole in the center for the head.
2. A similar garment having a hood used as a raincoat.
[American Spanish, from Spanish, cape, perhaps variant of pocho, faded, discolored.]
poncho [ˈpɒntʃəʊ]
n pl -chos
(Clothing & Fashion) a cloak of a kind originally worn in South America, made of a rectangular or circular piece of cloth, esp wool, with a hole in the middle to put the head through
[from American Spanish, from Araucanian pantho woollen material]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.ponchoponcho - a blanket-like cloak with a hole in the center for the head
cloak - a loose outer garment
Translations
poncho [ˈpɒntʃəʊ] N (ponchos (pl)) → poncho m, manta f, ruana f (Col, Ven), sarape m (Mex), jorongo m (Mex)
poncho [ˈpɒntʃəʊ] n → poncho m
poncho
n → Poncho m
poncho [ˈpɒntʃəʊ] n → poncho m inv
poncho [ˈpɒntʃəʊ] n → poncho m inv
poncho
n poncho [ˈpontʃəu]
a garment made of, or like, a blanket, with a hole for the head.


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exclaimed Ned, shaking his poncho and getting rid of some of the water that had settled on it.
Tom Swift In The Land Of Wonders by Appleton, Victor View in context
For the whale is indeed wrapt up in his blubber as in a real blanket or counterpane; or, still better, an Indian poncho slipt over his head, and skirting his extremity.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
In the course of his lounging about the camp, however, he got possession of a deer skin; whereupon, cutting a slit in the middle, he thrust his head through it, so that the two ends hung down before and behind, something like a South American poncho, or the tabard of a herald.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
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