어원: mos (“custom”) + Teutonicus (“Teuton, German”). Although other peoples (including the French) sometimes practised it, the custom was most closely associated with the Germans.

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1. the medieval custom, common among Germans and some others who died in Muslim lands, of dismembering the body of a dead person, boiling the parts in water or wine to separate the flesh from the bones, and transporting the bones back to the person's homeland