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The job of refining techniques of riding and roping — while modifying gear and apparel — largely fell to the resourceful vaqueros, from the Spanish word vaca for cow.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

I never loved the food — until I discovered ropa vieja and vaca frita.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2024

John Manion, chef/owner of Argentine steakhouse El Che Steakhouse & Bar in Chicago, recently got a shipment of "at least five-year-old" grassfed vaca vieja strip loin from gourmet meat distributor D'Artagnan to sample.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2022

Only two years ago, a modest 500 men a month were flown out to Hong Kong and Bangkok for brief vaca tions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then for twenty-four pesos and fifty centavos he had bought a cow, and the vaca before long gave them a fine calf and twelve cuartillos of milk a day.

From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Franck, Harry Alverson