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Montem Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈmɒntɛm|
In 8 montain.
[From the L. ad montem, ‘to the Hill’.]
A festival (originally annual, latterly triennial) formerly celebrated by the scholars of Eton, who in fancy costumes went in procession to ‘Salt Hill’, a mound near Slough, and there collected money from the bystanders. The money collected was applied to defray the expenses of the senior colleger (the ‘Captain of the Montem’) at King's College, Cambridge. The last celebration was in 1844.
1743Dod in Phil. Trans. XLII. 561 This young Gentleman had..over-heated himself..by performing a Part at the Montain, near Eton, where he was a Scholar. 1745R. Cust in Maxwell-Lyte Eton Coll. (1899) 511 It was never Mr. Cook's intention to let us have a Montem this year. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. v. ii, Mr. Surface, it seems, had come home the night before late from Salthill, where he had been to see the Montem with a friend, who has a son at Eton. 1817J. Evans Excurs. Windsor, etc. 353 The ancient custom of the Montem is celebrated at Eton every third year on Whit-Tuesday. 1899Sir A. West Recoll. I. i. 60, I took part in the last ‘montem’.
b. attrib. and Comb., as montem day, montem dinner, montem dress, montem pole, montem procession; montem-sure-night, the night of the twentieth day before the montem, when it became ‘sure’ that the senior colleger could not receive a twenty-day summons to present himself for a vacancy in King's College, Cambridge, and so would be Captain of the Montem.
a1769Huggett in Brand's Pop. Antiq. (1813) I. 345 The Montem day used to be fixed for the first Tuesday in Hilary Term. 1817Gentl. Mag. June 559/2 The young Gentlemen walked..in grand procession, to Frogmore, in their full Montem dresses. 1865W. L. C. Etoniana 153 The night which followed the twentieth day before the Montem was called Montem-sure-night. 1886Dowden Shelley I. i. 25 The years 1805 and 1808 were made glorious by the Montem processions. 1893A. G. Grinnan in Will. & Mary Coll. Quarterly II. 118 Mrs. Young..paid the bills of tailors,..cost of montem poles and the montem dinner, and all manner of expenses incident to their position. |