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- noun Plural form of
lasso .
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Examples
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One observer watched two Comanche women set out at full speed with lassoes and each rope a bounding antelope on the first throw.34 Women had their own mounts, as well as mules and gentle horses for packing.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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The CD lassoes the dark allure of Broadway, the infectious feel of swing and the O'Brien-Moore family's resonant singing.
Sharon Glassman: Mollie O'Brien: New CD, Saintly Sinnin' Sound Sharon Glassman 2010
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Yet here and there one could almost hear the footsteps of the Muses: in that beautiful San Francisco, for instance, under a sky of untroubled blue, by the edge of that marble Greek theater at Berkeley College, or in those ornamental gardens a little southward where the policemen ride among the pepper trees and the palm trees with lassoes before them on the saddle.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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Six mounted rancheros threw lassoes trying to catch the bull's hind hooves.
Receiving end of a Mexican rodeo (recibimiento á las fiestas taurinas) 2007
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Waving lassoes overhead the rancheros drove him back into the bullpen.
Receiving end of a Mexican rodeo (recibimiento á las fiestas taurinas) 2007
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Then shes out again, swiveling those pheromones like lassoes.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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Then shes out again, swiveling those pheromones like lassoes.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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Six mounted rancheros threw lassoes trying to catch the bull's hind hooves.
Receiving end of a Mexican rodeo (recibimiento á las fiestas taurinas) 2007
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Six mounted rancheros threw lassoes trying to catch the bull's hind hooves.
Receiving end of a Mexican rodeo (recibimiento á las fiestas taurinas) 2007
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Waving lassoes overhead the rancheros drove him back into the bullpen.
Receiving end of a Mexican rodeo (recibimiento á las fiestas taurinas) 2007
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