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MONTEITH

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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

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

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