| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| remuda |
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| SYLLABICATION: | re·mu·da |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r -m  d |
| NOUN: | Southwestern U.S. A herd of horses from which ranch hands select their mounts. | | ETYMOLOGY: | American Spanish, change of horses, remuda, from Spanish, exchange, from remudar, to exchange : re-, in return (from Latin; see re–) + mudar, to change (from Latin m t re; see mei-1 in Appendix I).
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