Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A poncholike garment, open in front, often worn as a wrap.
- noun A poncho.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of viol used in India.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
outer garment typical of theAndes region ofVenezuela andColombia , and resembling aponcho .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And the ruana I knit from my very first handspun did indeed end up being a blanket for the dog.
Saturday etc. Spinningfishwife 2008
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I also learned to take a cape or ruana to wrap up in to keep warm or to use as a pillow.
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Acevedo has offered to carry the Colombian flag and may wear a tropical straw hat, a ruana (a cape over his shoulders) and white trousers.
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“My hat,” he says, “was of plaited grass, with a crown nine inches in height, surrounded by a brim of six inches; a white cotton suit; and a _ruana_ of blue and crimson plaid, with a hole in the centre for the head to pass through.
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858
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