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‖ mons|mɒnz| Pl. montes |ˈmɒntiːz|. [L. mons mountain.] The Latin word for ‘mount’, ‘mountain’, used in certain phrases. a. Palmistry. mons area, the sensitive area of the mons veneris. mons Jovis, mercurii, saturni, veneris (see quot. 1678). b. Anat. mons pubis, the more or less prominent fatty eminence covering the pubic symphysis of the human male. mons Veneris, the similar eminence in the woman; also (usu. in phr.) mons.
1621B. Jonson Gipsies Metam. Wks. (Rtldg.) 620/2 You are no great Wencher, I see by your table, Although your Mons Veneris sayes you are able. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Tubercula, in Chiromancy are those more eminent Muscles, or protuberant parts under the Fingers; they are otherwise called Montes; that under the Thumb, Tuberculum, or Mons Veneris; that in the Root of the Fore-finger, is called Mons Jovis, of the Middle-finger, Mons Saturni, of the Ring-finger, Mons Solis, of the Little-finger, Mons Mercurii. 1693tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Mons Veneris, the upper part of a Womans Secrets, something higher than the rest. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) I. 740/1 The mons veneris..is internally composed of adipose membranes. 1857Bullock tr. Cazeaux' Midwif. 39 The Mons Veneris is a rounded eminence..situated in front of the pubis, and surmounting the vulva. 1965Masters & Johnson in J. Money Sex Research iv. 109 The concept of manipulating only the clitoris rather than the entire mons area is grossly in error. 1968T. Lidz Person xiv. 427 Stimulation of the mons area or perineal region in general can rapidly revive the arousal. 1969‘J’ Sensuous Woman (1970) iii. 32 It takes longer to come to orgasm with mons manipulation, but it is just as satiating an experience as direct clitoral shaft massage. |