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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Accordingly I mounted a spirited little horse, and with a montero guide, turned my face once more towards the “ever faithful city of Havana.”
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer
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
This montero usually possesses but a few acres, which yield him fruit, cane and vegetables enough to make his life easy and contented.
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 George Borrow The Man and His Books by Edward Thomas
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 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
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
The monteros shall be employed, and serve night and day, according to the regulations of Rui Gomez de Sylva.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente
Even the women of the monteros were splendid horse-women.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
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