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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Vaquero

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VAQUERO, a Spanish word meaning a cowherd or herdsman, and so particularly used in Mexico and Spanish America for the whole class of men employed on the large cattle-ranches or vaquerias. The word, like the corresponding Fr. vacher, cow- herd, comes from the Med. Lat. vaccarius (vacca, cow).