mountant

adj, noun — 3 senses

mountant

adj

Etymology From mount + -ant. Doublet of montant.

1

Archaic Rising

Hold up, you sluts, / Your aprons mountant1607, William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens:

mountant

noun

Etymology From mount + -ant. Doublet of montant.

1

The medium used for mounting a slide

Both mountants can be placed on the same slide, with spores placed in each.2004, Cletus P. Kurzman, Jack W. Fell, “Yeasts”, in Biodiversity of Fungi, →ISBN, page 335:

2

Arts, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Photography Dated The adhesive used to affix a photograph to a mount

The favourite professional mountant was, and to some extent still is, starch paste.1911, Bernard Edward Jones, Encyclopedia of Photography, reprint edition, published 1964, →ISBN, page 365:
This photo-mountant costs about sixpence a pot, but you can buy a bottle of gum for a penny.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:

Related terms: montant

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