poncho

Etymology
, from. In sense “rubber rain poncho”, attested 1845, used for non-South American garments in the United States and England from 1850s, popularized by US Western expeditions and military from 1850s, particularly after World War II (1940s).

Noun

 * 1) A simple garment, made from a rectangle of cloth, with a slit in the middle for the head.
 * 2) A similar waterproof garment, today typically of rubber with a hood.
 * 3) * 1857,, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West, p. 48 (1857), p. 48 (1858):
 * 4) * I found it necessary while doing guard to cover myself with my India-rubber poncho, to prevent my clothes from becoming saturated with water.
 * 5) * 1858, “Robbery in a Railway Carriage” (1858 March 29), Edmund Burke ed., Annual Register (collected 1859), March p. 59:
 * when near the old church in Manchester he was run against by a man whom he supposed to be a drunken man, who was dressed in a poncho overcoat.
 * 1) * 1857,, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West, p. 48 (1857), p. 48 (1858):
 * 2) * I found it necessary while doing guard to cover myself with my India-rubber poncho, to prevent my clothes from becoming saturated with water.
 * 3) * 1858, “Robbery in a Railway Carriage” (1858 March 29), Edmund Burke ed., Annual Register (collected 1859), March p. 59:
 * when near the old church in Manchester he was run against by a man whom he supposed to be a drunken man, who was dressed in a poncho overcoat.
 * when near the old church in Manchester he was run against by a man whom he supposed to be a drunken man, who was dressed in a poncho overcoat.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: χλαμύς
 * Irish: painseó
 * Italian:
 * Malay: ponco
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: poncho
 * Nynorsk: poncho
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: punchu, unku
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: capelina
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 雨披
 * Finnish: sadeviitta
 * German: Regenponcho
 * Italian:
 * Persian:
 * Dari: پَانْچو
 * Swedish:

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) money collected for a common purpose

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Declension
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Indeclinable.

Etymology
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