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Example sentences for: vaquero
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Somehow when they pronounced vaquero, it came out of their mouths as “buckaroo.”
Arnold Rojas, a Californian vaquero, writer, and memoirist, writes that Joaquín Murrieta was from the city of Alamos, Sonora, Mexico, where church records show that he and Rosita were married.
In his reminiscences of vaquero culture and of the impact Mexican Sonorans had on California, Rojas shows a side of Chicano culture not commonly known.
In this sense it dates from the 1870s, and, of the several conjectural etymologies, those that link it with the Spanish vaquero or the English Jacky Raw seem at least possible.
The definition is a territorial one, with the cowboy working east of the Rockies and the vaquero west of the Rockies.