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monteith (iou)



monteith noun. L17.
[from Scot. surname Monteith: in sense 1 app. from a 17th-cent. Scotsman who wore a cloak with a scalloped bottom edge; in sense 2 from Henry Monteith, 19th-cent. Scot. dyer.]
A large ornamental punch-bowl, often silver, with a scalloped rim. L17.
A cotton handkerchief with a pattern of white spots on a coloured background. obsolete exc. Hist. L19.