Crossword-Solution: PLATEROS 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The principal commercial and fashionable street of Mexico City is that of Plateros, somewhat narrow and congested, but full of high-class shops.

Not likely; seeing their company, and the occupation I want them put at." "Which is?" "A little job in the _zancas_!" "In which street?" "The Calle de Plateros.

This in Mexico is the Calle de Plateros (street of the silversmiths), so called because there the workers in precious metals and dealers in bijouterie "most do congregate." In this street the _jovenes dorados_ (gilded youth) of modern Tenochtitlan strolled in tight-fitting patent leather boots, canary-coloured kid gloves, cane in hand, and quizzing-glass to the eye.

Though the Calle de Plateros terminates at the gate of the Alameda, the same line of street is continued half a mile further on, to the fashionable drive of the _Pasco Nuevo_, sometimes called Pasco de Buccareli, from the Viceroy who ruled New Spain when it was laid out.

Every day in the year--except during the week of _Guaresma_ (Lent), when capricious fashion takes him to the Paseo Viejo, or _Lav Vigas_, on the opposite side of the city--can this brilliant procession be seen moving along the Calle de Plateros, and its continuation, the Calle de San Francisco.