bellarminen.
/ˈbɛləmiːn/ Obsolete exc. Historical.
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 R. Chambers Bk. of Days (1862) I. 371.)
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1720 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth VI. 201 With Juggs, Muggs, and Pitchers, and Bellarmines of Stale.
1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) v Amphithetum, a great cup or jug..a rummer, a bellarmine.
1861 Our Eng. Home 170 The capacious bellarmine was filled to the brim with foaming ale.
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