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monteth

monteth is the alternative form of monteith.

Meaning of monteith

Noun

monteith (plural monteiths)

  1. A large 18th-century punchbowl, usually of silver, fluted and scalloped.
    • In the taper-lit, perhaps pre-sixteeth-century room—a piece of Laughing and Triumphing needlework in the style of Rubens completely hid the walls—the capacious oval of the dinner-table, crowned by a monteith bowl filled with slipper-orchids, showed agreeably enough.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, London: Grant Richards, page 46
  2. (obsolete) A cotton handkerchief with white spots on a coloured background.

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Forms of monteth

pluralmonteths

Questions about monteth

What is monteth the alternative form of?
Monteth is the alternative form of monteith.

Words near monteth in the dictionary

  1. Montessorianism
  2. Montessorians
  3. Montessorism
  4. Montessorist
  5. Montessorists
  6. monteth
  7. monteths
  8. Montevallo
  9. Monteverde
  10. Monteverdes
  11. Monteverdian

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