LekhoriLekhoriA simple garment, made from a rectangle of cloth, with a slit in the middle for the head.
Garibaldi, with his cowboy's poncho, red shirt and the black ostrich feathers in his wide hat […]
A similar waterproof garment, today typically of rubber with a hood.
[…] spreading over my bedding an indian-rubber poncho to exclude the rain.
Borrowed from Spanish poncho, from Quechua punchu. In sense “rubber rain poncho”, attested 1845, used for non-South American garments in the United States and England from 1850s, popularized by US Wes...
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