montero
Americannoun
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monteros
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of montero
1615–25; < Spanish, special use of montero huntsman, literally, mountaineer, equivalent to monte mount 2 + -ero < Latin -ārius -ary
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There were three peasants with red montero caps loading the barrels, and they had completed one waggon and the lower tier of the other.
From The Adventures of Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Every little town had its cock-pit and every montero or guajiro sacrificed his wages to taste the excitement of that spectacle.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
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
A montero cap and a black feather drooped over the wearer's brow, and partly concealed his features, which, so far as seen, were dark, regular, adn full of majestic, though somewhat sullen, expression.
From The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
The montero himself, on a holiday or any public occasion, will sport a shirt of the finest linen, smoothly ironed, and stiffly starched throughout, from the collar downward.
From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by William Cullen Bryant
In consequence of this peaceful intercourse, many of the Indios monteros came and established themselves some time ago in the mission.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
In another quarter were six or eight monteros on horseback, in their invariable costume of Panama hats, shirts and pantaloons, with holsters to their saddles, and most of them with swords lashed to their sides.
From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by William Cullen Bryant
We now and then met the monteros themselves scudding along on their little horses, in that pace which we call a rack.
From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by William Cullen Bryant
Even the women of the monteros were splendid horse-women.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
The broad fields below were waving with cane and maize, and cottages of the monteros were scattered among them, each with its tuft of bamboos and its little grove of plantains.
From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by William Cullen Bryant
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