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noun

Pacos, Paco n.

(Zool.) Same as Alpaca.

(Min.) An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pacos" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the Santa Mesa Jockey dub are held on Sunday afternoons. It is a rather dusty drive out to the track. A number of noisy "road-houses" along the way, where drinking is going on; the Paco cemetery, where the bleached bones have been piled around the cross,—these are the sole diversions that the road affords. The races are interesting only in the opportunity they offer to observe the native types. Here you will find the Filipino dandy in his polished boots, ...

— The Great White Tribe in Filipinia • Paul T. Gilbert

... imagine—the curate of Tiani invited me to spend the vacation in his town, and I went. Old man, you know Padre Camorra, I suppose? Well, he's a liberal curate, very jolly, frank, very frank, one of those like Padre Paco. As there were pretty girls, we serenaded them all, he with his guitar and songs and I with my violin. I tell you, old man, we had a great time—there wasn't a house we ...

— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal