montero

American  

[mon-tair-oh, mawn-te-raw] / mɒnˈtɛər oʊ, mɔnˈtɛ rɔ /

noun

monteros plural

1. a Spanish hunter's cap, round in shape and having an earflap.

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montero British  

/ mɒnˈtɛərəʊ, monˈtero /

noun

1. a round cap with a flap at the back worn by hunters, esp in Spain in the 17th and 18th centuries

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• monteros
  plural

Etymology

Origin of montero

1615–25; < Spanish, special use of montero huntsman, literally, mountaineer, equivalent to monte mount ² + -ero < Latin -ārius -ary

Example Sentences

He approached the municipal box, made the usual salutation and demand, and threw his montero into the air in right cavalier style.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

That montero of a hundred and more years ago and the guajiro of today have so much in common that it seems safe to consider the latter a descendant of the former.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher

He was a good-looking p. 84young man, apparently about five-and-twenty, genteelly dressed, with a montero cap on his head. 

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

Now we passed by the house of the montero, or sporting peasant.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) by Various

He was in his shirt-sleeves, and wore a montero cap; his features were handsome but they were those of a demon.

From The Pocket George Borrow by Thomas, Edward