English

Noun

monteith ‎(plural monteiths)

1. a bowl used for the cooling or washing of wine glasses
2. (obsolete) a cotton handkerchief with white spots on a coloured background

Quotations

• 1919, Ronald Firbank, 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, 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.