pampero

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English

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Etymology

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From Spanish pampa (a plain).

Noun

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pampero (plural pamperos)

  1. A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage.
    • 1838, Woodbine Parish, Buenos Ayres, and the provinces of the Rio de La Plata, page 49:
      All these miseries, however, are not without their remedy; when the sufferings of the natives are at their climax, the mercury will give the sure indication of a coming pampero, as the south-wester is called []

Spanish

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Adjective

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pampero (feminine pampera, masculine plural pamperos, feminine plural pamperas)

  1. (relational) of or from the pampas

Noun

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pampero m (plural pamperos, feminine pampera, feminine plural pamperas)

  1. an inhabitant of the pampas
  2. pampero (wind)
  3. shearwater

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