montem
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]montem (plural montems)
- (UK, historical) 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.
- 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.ii:
- 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—
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[edit]Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]montem
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of montar:
Latin
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[edit]montem
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]montem
- inflection of montar: