buckarette

English

Etymology

Blend of buckaroo +‎ -ette

Noun

buckarette (plural buckarettes)

1. (uncommon) A female buckaroo.
   • 1991, Gwynne Spencer, Places to go with children in the Southwest, Chronicle Books Llc, →ISBN:

     Hardly anything can shatter the daydreams of the buckaroo or buckarette like an old stubborn school horse with sides like iron.

   • 2002, Holly George-Warren, How Hollywood Invented the Wild West: Featuring The Real West, Campfire Melodies, Matinee Idols, Four Legged Friends, Cowgirls & Lone Guns, Readers Digest, →ISBN:

     Once sound came to Westerns, only the occasional buckarette made an appearance. In 1936, the lovely blonde Jean Arthur played a vivacious Calamity Jane in Cecil B. DeMille's The Plainsman.

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