"Montero" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... proving, as did the whole of the costume, that its owner belonged to the aristocracy of his profession. His mono of new ribbons, attached to the lock of hair reserved expressly for that purpose, spread in gay profusion over his nape; his montero, of the most glossy black, was loaded with silk ornaments of the same colour; his pumps, extraordinarily small and thin, would have done honour to a shoemaker, and might have served a goddess ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various |
