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English
Etymology
From Middle English mountaunt, from Old French montant, present participle of monter (“to put up”).
Noun
muntin (plural muntins)
- (architecture) One of the separators between panes of glass in a composite window.
1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 174:He looked for a bell but there were just the wires hanging from a hole so he tapped on the glass of the sidelights. They gave soft and soundless in their lead muntins.
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Verb
muntin
- inflection of muntar:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative