Example sentences for: vaquero

How can you use “vaquero” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The vaquero was the early Hispano cowboy and the antecedent of the Hollywood cowboy.

  • 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.

  • One theory is that when flour tortillas became available in northern Mexico, tacos de frijoles, or bean burritos, were easy to carry in the saddle-bags of the vaqueros (cowboys), so for this reason they came to be called burritos as though they were the sidekicks of the vaquero’s horse.

  • Rojas makes a distinction between the cowboy, the vaquero, and the buckaroo.

  • The vaquero or buckaroo is a westerner and the cowboy is a southerner.


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