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

Inflected Forms

noun

• 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

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 Bryant, William Cullen

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

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

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