montem

plural montems

1. UKhistoricalA former custom of Eton schoolboys to go to a hill on the Bath road every third Whit Tuesday to demand 'salt-money' from passers-by, for the university expenses of the senior scholar or school captain.

   Mr. Surface—it seems, had come home the Night before late from Salt-Hill where He had been to see the Montem with a Friend, who has a Son at Eton—

   1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.ii