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English
Etymology
From Spanish pampa (“a plain”).
Noun
pampero (plural pamperos)
- A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage.
1838, Woodbine Parish, Buenos Ayres, and the provinces of the Rio de La Plata, page 49:All these miseries, however, are not without their remedy; when the sufferings of the natives are at their climax, the mercury will give the sure indication of a coming pampero, as the south-wester is called […]
Spanish
Adjective
pampero (feminine pampera, masculine plural pamperos, feminine plural pamperas)
- (relational) of or from the pampas
Noun
pampero m (plural pamperos, feminine pampera, feminine plural pamperas)
- an inhabitant of the pampas
- pampero (wind)
- shearwater
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