thumb|215px|Facón in an elaborate sheath A facón is a fighting and utility knife widely used in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay as the principal tool and weapon of the gaucho of the South American pampas. thumb|right|A gaucho with his facón
thumb|215px|Facón in an elaborate sheath A facón is a fighting and utility knife widely used in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay as the principal tool and weapon of the gaucho of the South American pampas. thumb|right|A gaucho with his facón
==History== The facón is a derivation of the Portuguese facão, a large-bladed fighting and utility knife that accompanied Portuguese explorers and émigrés during their settlement and exploration of Brazil.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).