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Poncho

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Poncho 

(from the Spanish poncho, borrowed from the Araucanian Indian language), a cloak made of a rectangular piece of cloth with an opening at the center for the head; a traditional garment of the Indians of South and Central America. The Quechua, Aymar, and neighboring Indians wear ponchos made of two rectangular panels of a striped woolen fabric that are not sewn together in the middle, leaving an opening for the head. Poncho-type cloaks made of fur are known among the Dayaks on the island of Kalimantan. Similar cloaks made of tapa (material from bast fiber) are worn by the Polynesians.
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exclaimed Ned, shaking his poncho and getting rid of some of the water that had settled on it.
Tom Swift In The Land Of Wonders by Appleton, Victor View in context
For the whale is indeed wrapt up in his blubber as in a real blanket or counterpane; or, still better, an Indian poncho slipt over his head, and skirting his extremity.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
In the course of his lounging about the camp, however, he got possession of a deer skin; whereupon, cutting a slit in the middle, he thrust his head through it, so that the two ends hung down before and behind, something like a South American poncho, or the tabard of a herald.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
 
 
 
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