Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A hunter's cap with side flaps.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A huntsman.
  • noun A horseman's or huntsman's cap, having a round crown with flaps which could be drawn down over the sides of the face.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An ancient kind of cap worn by horsemen or huntsmen.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A round Spanish cap, with flaps at the back or sides, once used by hunters

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish, hunter, from monte, mountain, from Latin mōns, mont-; see mountain.]

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From Spanish huntsman

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