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  (in Mexico) chaps.

• Chaparejos

  (in Mexico) chaps. a pair of joined leather leggings, often widely flared, worn over trousers, especially by cowboys, as protection against burs, rope burns, etc., while on horseback. plural noun another name for chaps plural noun leather overalls without a seat, worn by cowboys Also called chaparejos, chaparajos n. 1844, American English, short for chaparejos, […]

• Chaparejoses

  (in Mexico) chaps. a pair of joined leather leggings, often widely flared, worn over trousers, especially by cowboys, as protection against burs, rope burns, etc., while on horseback. plural noun leather overalls without a seat, worn by cowboys Also called chaparejos, chaparajos n. 1844, American English, short for chaparejos, from Mexican Spanish chaparreras, overalls worn […]

• Chaparral

  a dense growth of shrubs or small trees. noun (in the southwestern US) a dense growth of shrubs and trees, esp evergreen oaks n. “shrub thicket,” 1850, American English, from Spanish chaparro “evergreen oak,” perhaps from Basque txapar “little thicket,” diminutive of sapar “heath, thicket.” In Spain, a chaparral is a bush of a species […]

• Chaparral-bird

  roadrunner.

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