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The third constable came round, rapping the leg – irons of each man with easy nonchalance, and roughly pulling up the coarse trousers (made with buttoned flaps at the sides, like Mexican calzoneros, in order to give free play to the ankle fetters), so that he might assure himself that no tricks had been played since his last visit.
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By his broidered calzoneros [7] and his saddle, gaily spread,
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 Various
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It was an animated scene; the men in the checkered serape, or stripped blankets, conical sombreros, with broad brims, calzoneros of velveteen, with rows of shining buttons, and a sash of gaudy color, encircling their waists.
Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Edwin Eastman
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They were dressed in steeple-crowned glazed _sombreros, serapes_ of fiery colours, velvet (cotton) _calzoneros_, white cambric _calzoncillos_, and leggins and shoes of undressed leather.
What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant
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With bare feet and head, with one check shirt and a pair of cotton calzoneros for all worldly possessions?
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With bare feet and head, with one check shirt and a pair of cotton calzoneros for all worldly possessions?
Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad 1890
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Besides the manga, the embroidered jacket, the scarlet scarf, and velveteen calzoneros, had all been put off, and others of a coarser kind were now worn in their place.
The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850
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He buttoned his velveteen calzoneros down nearly to his ankles, so that their leathern bottoms might not flap open and discommode him.
The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850
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Even the peon, in his leathern spencer and calzoneros, moved as gracefully as a professor of the art; and the poblanas, in their short skirts and gay coloured slippers, swept over the floor like so many coryphees of the ballet.
The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850
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All were admitted to the "Salon de baile" who chose to pay for it; and alongside the rico in fine broad-cloth you might see the ranchero in his leathern jacket and velveteen calzoneros; while the daughter of the rich comerciante danced in the same set with the "aldeana," whose time was taken up in kneading tortillas or weaving rebosos!
The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850
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