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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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†MONTEITH, n. Also montait.

1. A bandanna cotton handkerchief with a white spotted pattern on a coloured ground, named after the proprietor of the firm of makers (see quot.) (Sc. 1882 Caulfield and Seward Dict. Needlework 350).Sc. a.1800 Hist. Technology (1958) IV. 249:
5000 looms were employed in 1796 in the neighbourhood of Glasgow making pullicates for the Turkey-red dyers. These became known throughout Europe as monteith, after Henry Monteith, who acquired Dalmarnock from Macintosh.

2. A basin with notches or scallops round the edge where the stems of wine glasses were set when their bowls were cooling in water.Sc. 1700 Edb. Gazette (4 Jan.) 8:
All sorts of Drinking-Glasses, Decantores, Sillabbibs, Montaits, Punch-Bowls.