Definitions
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- noun US A
silver ornament , for use on clothing, either stamped with a design or inlaid with a stone
Etymologies
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Examples
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If it had been a Red Rider commemorative with a concho attached to the stock would that have been noted also?
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She asked to be buried in her Indian chief blanket, rings, necklace and concho belt.
Thoroughly Marvelous Millie Cherie Burns 2011
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If it had been a Red Rider commemorative with a concho attached to the stock would that have been noted also?
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There he is blathering away in old concert footage, as narrator Johnny Depp explains that Mr. Morrison picked out all his own stage clothes, "from the concho belts to the leather pants seemingly designed to accentuate his crotch."
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A Navajo would stand and unfurl a handwoven rug or offer up a silver concho belt or bridle or blanket.
Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010
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The only sign of wealth and status was his silver concho belt.9
Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010
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Wilson sits at a table slurping coffee, and in walks Shane wearinga spotless fringed-buckskin suit, a silver-concho gunbelt, a tooled-leather holster, and a nickel-plated ivory-handled Peacemaker.
Shane, Revisited 2007
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Then I had the proverbial light bulb moment: I took the concho belt, cut it in half and put it around the hat.
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"Give it a command," Vincent said, pointing at the screen, where Clint Eastwood, dressed in a striped poncho and a concho-banded hat, was sitting in a chair, his hands at his sides like a puppet's.
Futures Imperfect Willis, Connie 1994
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So were the heavy silver-and-turquoise choker and matching ketoh bracelet and concho belt.
Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993
jimgoodedual commented on the word concho
Shiny, metallic (often, silver) engraved pieces used to decorate leather goods such as belts and saddlebags or the hatbands of western-style (cowboy) hats.
July 16, 2009