vacher

From French vacher (“cowherd”). Compare vaquero.

• IPA^(key): /væˈʃeɪ/

vacher (plural vachers)

1. (US, Southwestern, obsolete) A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman.
   • 1841, C. Austin Woodruff, “Adventure and Scenery in the Far South-West”, in The Southern Literary Messenger:

     Thus they fought, totally regardless of Alabama, the blows and shouts of the vachers, each striving for victory

• vachery

• vacher in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• vacher in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• chaver, varech

From Vulgar Latin *vaccārius, from Latin vacca (“cow”). Akin to Catalan vaquer, Franco-Provençal vachier, Occitan vaquièr, Italian vaccaio, Romanian văcar, Portuguese vaqueiro, Spanish vaquero.

• IPA^(key): /va.ʃe/

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vacher m (plural vachers, feminine vachère)

1. cowherd

   Synonym: cow-boy

• vacher luisant

• bouvier

• “vacher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• varech