Definition of Chaco

1. a type of military hat [n CHACOS or CHACOES or CHACO]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaco

chaced
chaces
chacha
chachalaca
chachalacas
chachka
chachkas
chacing
chack
chacked
chacking
chacks
chacma
chacma baboon
chacmas
chaco (current term)
chacoes
chaconine
chaconines
chaconne
chaconnes
chacos
chacun à son goût
chadar
chadarim
chadars
chaddar
chaddars
chaddi

Literary usage of Chaco

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1889)
"THE Gran chaco derives its name, according to Charlevoix, from those great Indian battues, or collections of wild game, which, surrounded by a cordon of ..."

2. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1901)
"I have recently had occasion to visit the Gran chaco again ; this time, however, ... As, however, the particular part of the Gran chaco in which ray ..."

3. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1906)
"From these tribes, who still constitute the real population of the chaco, I had an opportunity of making collections from the ..."

4. South America: A Geography Reader by Isaiah Bowman (1915)
"The mystery of that large blank space on the maps of the Argentine and of Bolivia that represents El Gran chaco (Plate II) is realized by only a few people. ..."

5. Boas Anniversary Volume: Anthropological Papers Written in Honor of Franz by H. A. Andrews, Berthold Laufer (1906)
"HUMAN EFFIGY VASES FROM chaco CANON, NEW MEXICO. BY GEORGE H. PEPPER. THE distribution of human effigy vases in the southwestern part of the United States ..."

6. Complete Geography by Alex Everett Frye (1895)
"The Gran chaco and the Pampas. South of the Amazon basin lies the La Plata basin. ... The northern part of this plain is called the gran chaco, ..."

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