caballero

A butcher’s daughter named Flaca, with her male cologne and her heartbreaking caballero swagger, cooks and cares for her friends.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2019

That way, she said, “the story of the handsome, dashing caballero figure will continue to be relevant.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2016

Always impeccably dressed, in a blazer complete with a pocket square and suspenders, Cordova is as dapper as he is gentlemanly, an authentic caballero of the old school.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2015

When a turn-of-the-century caballero inclined toward a passing beauty and murmured a loping compliment like this, the girl could walk away in disdain but could hardly fail to blush with pleasure.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he’s conscious, my grandfather is a blustery caballero who insists that even his wife call him “Don Guillermo.”

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

His Zorro dedicates himself to the equitable treatment of every citizen and rouses his fellow caballeros to practice a democratic form of noblesse oblige.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2020

Ramírez was a Mexican migrant who spent much of his life in California state mental hospitals and created curious, pattern-filled drawings of trains and caballeros.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2017

Now I could refer to your editors as "bowlegged waddies," "brocklefaced bozos," "drugstore caballeros" or "maverick-roping rustlers," and perhaps accomplish nothing but a feeling of resentment on their part.

From Time Magazine Archive

What seemed like outrageous hardship to the tenderfoot caballeros was easy going for the hardy friar, veteran of long treks through Peru and Central America.

From Time Magazine Archive

They became horsemen, caballeros, men whose daily life was wrapped up in the ritual of horsemanship.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya