montem
Noun
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Noun
montem (plural montems)
- (UK, historical) A former custom of Eton schoolboys to go to a hill on the Bath road every third Whit Tuesday to demand 'salt-money' from passers-by, for the university expenses of the senior scholar or school captain.
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