Brewer's: Montague

(3 syl.). The head of a faction in Verona (Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet). The device of the family is a mountain with sharply-peaked crest (mont-agu or acu).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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