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re⋅mu⋅da

[ruh-moo-duh; Sp. re-moo-thah]
–noun, plural -das [-duhz; Sp. -thahs] . Chiefly Southwestern U.S.
a group of saddle horses from which ranch hands choose mounts for the day.

Origin:
1835–45, Americanism; < AmerSp: a change (of horses), Sp: exchange, deriv. of remudar to change, replace, equiv. to re- re- + mudar to change (< L mūtāre)
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re·mu·da   (rĭ-mōō'də)   
n.   Southwestern U.S.
A herd of horses from which ranch hands select their mounts.

[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 mūtāre; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots).]
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