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longbeard

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long⋅beard

[lawng-beerd, long-]
–noun
bellarmine.

Origin:
1640–50; long 1 + beard

bel⋅lar⋅mine

[bel-ahr-meen, bel-ahr-meen, -er-]
–noun
a fat, narrow-necked stoneware bottle of the 16th and 17th centuries, ornamented with a bearded mask.
Also called graybeard, longbeard.


Origin:
1710–20; named after Cardinal Bellarmino (1542–1621), Italian churchman, the object of the caricature on the bottle
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longbeard

noun
a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) [syn: bellarmine
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