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Definition of Ranchero
1. n. A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.
Definition of Ranchero
1. Noun. (US Mexico) A rancher or herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho. ¹
2. Noun. (US Mexico) The owner and occupant of a ranch or rancho. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ranchero
1. a rancher [n -ROS] - See also: rancher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ranchero
Literary usage of Ranchero
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sixty Years in California: A History of Events and Life in California by William Heath Davis (1889)
"Sharp Practice in Trade—The rancheros' Favoritism between Bidders—Drying Hides
Extempore—Expedients adopted by a ranchero to Fill an ..."
2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... ranchero Ideas of Distance, and their Mode of giving Directions — The Angostura,
and erroneous Notions of the Texans — A new Route revealed — Solitary ..."
3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... Fees paid for Marriages and Burials — Anecdote of a ranchero — Ditto of a
Servant and a Widow, illustrative of Priestly Extortion — Modes of Burial, ..."
4. Ten years of my life by Agnes Elizabeth W. Salm-Salm (1876)
"... Guadalupe—Its wonderful origin—The Creole Virgin—Chapultepec—Humming-birds—Mexican
houses and life—Mexican ladies—The Indians—A ranchero—Mexican market. ..."
5. Commerce of the Prairies: During Eight Expeditions Across the Great Western by Josiah Gregg (1844)
"... New Mexico—Avant-couriers for Santa Fe—Patent Fire-arms and their Virtues—ranchero
Ideas of Distance, and their Mode of giving Directions—The Angostura, ..."
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