Engineering:Mounteere cap

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Short description: Type of Spanish hunting cap
An oval portrait of a white man in a fur-rimmed hat. Before the portrait, there are a palette and a dog.
Self-portrait of William Hogarth with his dog Trump, 1745. He wears a Montero cap.
A full-length engraving of a white man in a robe, extending a hand with a fur hat.
Richard Crosbie holds a leopard skin Montero hat, 1785.

Mounteere cap (also known as a Montero cap) is a type of cap formerly worn in Spain for hunting. It has a spherical crown and (frequently fur-lined) flaps able to be drawn down to protect the ears and neck.[1][2]

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References

  1. Montero (3rd ed.), Oxford University Press, September 2005, http://oed.com/search?searchType=dictionary&q=Montero  (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. Samuel Pepys. "Monday 30 April 1660". The Diary of Samuel Pepys. http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1660/04/30/.