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Word: ponchoed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Ramona y Poncho: Maggie and Jiggs

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pepita y Lorenzo | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

Soviet scouts in the outskirts of Stalingrad bagged the season's first typical winter German. His head was wrapped in a woman's shawl looted from some Russian peasant hut. A threadbare blanket with a hole cut in the middle served him as a poncho. The Red Army men, dressed in the standard winter sheepskin shubas (coats), fleece-lined caps and warm valenki (knee-high felt boots), seized the shivering Fritz as he stood sentry duty over a zigzag trench full of freezing Germans. All he could mumble was "holodno" (cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Snows of Yesteryear | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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