montems

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A form of montem — A 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of montem
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Chicago

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