poncho

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noun

Plural noun:

ponchosponchoes

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.
1857, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West, p. 48 (1857), p. 48 (1858):
I found it necessary while doing guard to cover myself with my India-rubber poncho, to prevent my clothes from becoming saturated with water.
[…] 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.

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Spanish poncho, from punchu. 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).