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Chaparajos   Listen
noun
Chaparajos  n. pl.  Overalls of sheepskin or leather, usually open at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in the chaparral; called also chapareras or colloq. chaps. (Sp. Amer.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Chaparajos" Quotes from Famous Books



... "round-up," or hunting. It would electrify some of my friends who have accused me of representing the kid-gloved element in politics if they could see me galloping over the plains, day in and day out, clad in a buckskin shirt and leather chaparajos, with a big sombrero on my head. For good, healthy exercise I would strongly recommend some of our gilded youth to go West and try a short course of riding bucking ponies, and assist at the branding of a ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn



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