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Vaquero
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a Spanish word meaning a cowherd or herdsman, and so particularly used in Mexico and Spanish America for the whole class of men employed on the large cattle-ranches or vaquerias. The word, like the corresponding Fr. vacher, cowherd, comes from the Med. Lat. vaccarius (vacca, cow).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Vaquero'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/v/vaquero.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Vaquero'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/v/vaquero.html. 1910.
