jerga

Updated: May 26, 2025

There is horse-gear as well the multifarious trappings which appertain to the caparison of a gaucho's steed recado, carona, caronilla, jerga, with Mameluke bitts and spurs of immensely large rowels; for all these are possessed by the higher order of pampas Indians, and notably their chiefs property they have picked up in some plundering expedition, where gauchos themselves have been their victims.

Mayne Reid - Gaspar the Gaucho: A Story of the Gran Chaco