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VAQUERO

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 904 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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VAQUERO , a

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SPANISH

Spanish word meaning a cowherd or herdsman, and so particularly used in

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Mexico and Spanish

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AMERICA

America for the whole class of men employed on the large

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CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle-ranches or vaquerias . The word, like the corresponding Fr. vacher, cow-

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HERD (a word common to Teutonic languages; the O. Eng. form was heord; cf. Ger. Herde, Swed. and Dan. hjord; the Sans. ca'rdhas, which shows the pre-Teutonic form, means a troop)

herd, comes from the Med .

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LAT

Lat. vaccarius (vacca, cow) .

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