Meaning of monteith | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A large 18th-century punchbowl, usually of silver, fluted and scalloped.
2. A surname.
3. A cotton handkerchief with white spots on a coloured background.
   obsolete

Examples

“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.”

“The Punch is a secret Receipt of the Landlord, including but not limited to peach brandy, locally distill’d Whiskey, and milk. A raft of long Icicles broken from the Eaves floats upon the pale contents of the great rustick Monteith.”

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