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A blanket that decided it had places to be.
means A simple outer garment made from a single piece of cloth with a hole in the center for the head, worn draped over the shoulders.
from From American Spanish, borrowed in turn from Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche people of Chile and Argentina, where 'pontho' named exactly this kind of woven garment. It rode north and outward with the Andes, the word traveling alongside the cloth itself.
- andean origin
- Worn across the Andes for thousands of years
- hands free
- One hole, total mobility, zero buttons
- military issue
- Doubled as raincoat, tent, and stretcher
- spaghetti western
- Clint Eastwood made it pure outlaw cool
- poncho villa
- No relation to the revolutionary, despite the pun
for instance
poncho villa — mexican revolutionary general (1878-1923) who led the division del norte
poncho y lefty — grammy-winning 2015 album by willie nelson and merle haggard