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pon·cho

(pŏn′chō)

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.]

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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

[C18: from American Spanish, from Araucanian pantho woollen material]

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pon•cho

(ˈpɒn tʃoʊ)

n., pl. -chos.

1. a blanketlike cloak with an opening in the center to admit the head, orig. worn in South America.

2. a waterproof garment styled like this, worn as a raincoat.

[1710–20; < American Spanish < Araucanian]

pon′choed, adj.

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poncho - a blanket-like cloak with a hole in the center for the head

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poncho

[ˈpɒntʃəʊ] N (ponchos (pl)) → poncho m, manta f, ruana f (Col, Ven), sarape m (Mex), jorongo m (Mex)

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poncho

(ˈpontʃəu) – plural ˈponchos – noun

a garment made of, or like, a blanket, with a hole for the head. poncho

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We have our ponchos, and we are not fair-weather explorers.

"This is better!" exclaimed Ned, shaking his poncho and getting rid of some of the water that had settled on it.

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There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, as you see the same in South American ponchos. But could it be possible that any sober harpooneer would get into a door mat, and parade the streets of any Christian town in that sort of guise?

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Poor Indians, not having anything better, only pull a thread out of their ponchos, and fasten it to the tree.

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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.

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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.

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"I'm awful frightened," she said, naively; "whoever would have thought that Poncho would have been so scared by a lot of cows?"

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Lord John lay silent, wrapped in the South American poncho which he wore, while Challenger snored with a roll and rattle which reverberated through the woods.

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ISLAMABAD -- Like Pashmina and Kashmiri Shawls, the demand for 'knitted ponchos wool capes shawls' in different pastel colors and varieties selling like hot cakes all across the country including Islamabad city with the onset of winter season to attract the female buyers.

'Warm Cap shawls' becoming popular wearing item in cold season : Report

ISLAMABAD:Like Pashmina and Kashmiri Shawls, the demand for 'knitted ponchos wool capes shawls' in different pastel colors and varieties selling like hot cakes all across the country including Islamabad city with the onset of winter season to attract the female buyers.