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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A jacket, particularly a leather jacket, worn by cow-boys as a protection when traveling through the chaparral.

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  • It's often as simple as commanding the dominant slang - for example, a jacket for Central Americans is "chaqueta," but for Mexicans it is "chamarra" - but it can range to more overt hostility or competition in the work force, and it can spark worries of losing cultural identity.

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  • It's often as simple as commanding the dominant slang - for example, a jacket for Central Americans is "chaqueta," but for Mexicans it is "chamarra" - but it can range to more overt hostility or competition in the work force, and it can spark worries of losing cultural identity.

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  • On five-six-seven, chaqueta: tuck your right elbow outside her arm.

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  • His garb was a strange mingling of the vaquero and the ecclesiastic -- velvet trousers, open from the knee down, and fringed with bullion buttons; a broad red sash around his waist, partly hidden by a long, straight chaqueta; with a circular sacerdotal cape of black broadcloth slipped over his head through a slit-like opening braided with gold.

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  • Por lo que se prepara todos los días con una chaqueta de lona para soportar el calor inmenso que recibe todos los días pues él tiene que ganarse todos los días el pan de cada día.

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  • - Su chaqueta tiene cremalleras para que la pueda llevar con sus alas, y tiene un rojo genial en la parte interior (originalmente era la parte exterior, pero le dio la vuelta ya que prefiere el negro).

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