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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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
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 Edward Thomas
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
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
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
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
A perfectly infinite number of mayordomos, caballerizos, gentiles hombres de casa y boca, ujieres, alabarderos, monteros, aides-de-camp, Grandes de España de servicio, ladies-in-waiting, lackeys, servants, and attendants of every possible description abound.
From Spanish Life in Town and Country by William Harbutt Dawson
The children of the monteros and guajiros in the country grew up in almost complete illiteracy.
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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