Definitions For Monteith

Noun

MONTEITH (plural MONTEITHs) A bowl used for the cooling or washing of wine glasses. A large 18th-century punchbowl, usually of silver, fluted and scalloped. (obsolete) A cotton handkerchief with white spots on a coloured background.

Quotations

1919, w:ronald firbank, ronald firbank, w:valmouth, valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 22 : 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. 1997, w:thomas pynchon, thomas pynchon, Mason & Dixon : 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.