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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

silver, with a movable rim and scalloped edges, from which See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine glasses, See also:

PUNCH

punch ladle, &c., could be hung, so that they might be cooled in the See also:

WATER

water with which it was filled . According to See also:

Anthony See also:

Wood (See also:

LIFE

Life and Times, iii . 84, quoted in the New See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

DICTIONARY

Dictionary) the name was given to the bowl from a " fantastical See also:

SCOT, MICHAEL (? 1175-1232)

Scot . . . See also:

MONSIEUR (Fr., formed from men, my, and sieur, lord)

Monsieur Monteigh who . . . wore the bottome of his cloake or coate so notched," i.e. scalloped .

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