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paco en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈpɑːkəʊ/

Etymology

From Spanish paco.

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) An alpaca.
2. (countable, uncountable) An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver.
   • Mr. Ratcliffe has sometimes found them to contain arsenic in an oxidized state, combined with ferric oxide, and once he met with a paco ore mainly composed of antimony ochre. 1880, John Percy, Metallurgy: the art of extracting metals from their ores, page 652:

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