A mounting, setting, or frame; the manner in which anything is set or mounted: as, the monture of a diamond.(noun)
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Use "monture" in a sentence
"Nanchardin nous fournit, pour notre monture et pour porter nos provisions, des anes et des mulets."
"The road lay up rocky hill and down stony vale; a tripping and stumbling dromedary had been substituted for the usual monture: the consequence was that we had either a totter or a tumble once per mile during the whole of that long night."
"During the greater part of the time we were struggling through a living tide; and among dromedaries and chargers a donkey is by no means a pleasant monture."