■ noun ( plural ~s ) a garment of a type originally worn in South America, made of a thick piece of woollen cloth with a slit in the middle for the head.
Origin
C18: from Latin Amer. Sp., from Araucanian.
PONCHO
Meaning of PONCHO in English
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004