gaucho

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Sorority sisters wearing skirts and gaucho hats worked as greeters.

From Salon

A towheaded orphan, the narrator is raised by a domineering woman whose husband loses La China in a card game to the drunken gaucho Martín Fierro.

From New York Times

Sharing food and bitter mate tea, which is passed among clusters of friends and slurped from communal metal straws, is indispensable to the iconic image of Argentine gaucho cowboys.

From Reuters

“Families can swim, surf, snorkel with seals and spend time on a working ranch, or, estancia, for horseback riding and helping the gauchos with a cattle drive.”

From New York Times

For the gauchos — nomadic horsemen who hold a place in Argentine culture similar to that held by cowboys here — malambo was a competition of footwork, a test of vigor.

From New York Times