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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 766 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTEITH , the name given to a large bowl, often made of See also:

silver, with a movable rim and scalloped edges, from which See also:wine glasses, See also:punch ladle, &c., could be hung, so that they might be cooled in the See also:water with which it was filled. According to See also:Anthony See also:Wood (See also:Life and Times, iii. 84, quoted in the New See also:English See also:Dictionary) the name was given to the bowl from a " fantastical See also:Scot . . . See also:Monsieur Monteigh who . . . wore the bottome of his cloake or coate so notched," i.e. scalloped.

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