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Montem

Montem \Mon"tem\, n. [L. ad montem to the hillock. See Mount, n.] A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.

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montem

n. (cx UK historical English) A custom, now discontinued, of Eton schoolboys to go to a hill on the Bath road every third Whit-Tuesday to demand 'salt-money' from passers-by.

Usage examples of "montem".

Et mane facto reuersus inuenit montem tantum spatii reliquisse structoribus ecclesiae, quantum opus habuerant.