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.)
| 1719 D'Urfey Pills (1872) VI. 201 With Jugs, Mugs, and Pitchers, and Bellarmines of State. 1783 Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) 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. |