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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 Dawson, William Harbutt

He calls them monteros, which means huntsmen, and they were probably the more shiftless descendants of this first class of settlers.

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

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 Bryant, William Cullen

Even the women of the monteros were splendid horse-women.

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

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 Bryant, William Cullen