capataz
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Noun
capataz (plural capataces)
- boss, foreman, overseer
- 1903, Joseph Conrad, F. M. Hueffer, Romance:
- “My gentle spirit is roused to the accomplishment of great things. I feel in me a valiance, an inspiration. I am no vulgar seller of aguardiente, like Domingo. I was born to be the capataz of the Lugarenos.”
- 1922, Joseph Hergesheimer, Cytherea:
- The capataz of the batey gang, a tall flushed Jamaican negro, passed on a cantering white pony.
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