ropavejero
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ropa vieja (“old clothes, rags”) + -ero.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ropavejero m (plural ropavejeros, feminine ropavejera, feminine plural ropavejeras)
- ragman
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:
- Días después Irzubeta lucía un flamante fusil de aire comprimido que vendió a un ropavejero de la calle Reconquista.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ropavejero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10