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bellarmine Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈbɛləmiːn|
A large glazed drinking-jug with capacious belly and narrow neck, originally designed, by the Protestant party in the Netherlands, as a burlesque likeness of their great opponent, Cardinal Bellarmine. (See Chambers Bk. of Days I. 371.)
1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) VI. 201 With Jugs, Mugs, and Pitchers, and Bellarmines of State. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) v, Amphithetum, a great cup or jug..a rummer, a bellarmine. 1861Our Eng. Home 170 The capacious bellarmine was filled to the brim with foaming ale. |