Bellarmine : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Bellarmine	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Bellarmine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bellarmine n Italian cardinal and theologian (1542-1621) [syn: Bellarmine, Bellarmino, Cardinal Bellarmine, Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmine] a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) Synonym(s): bellarmine, longbeard, long-beard, greybeard
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bellarmine \Bel"lar*mine\, n. A stoneware jug of a pattern originated in the neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also {graybeard}, {longbeard}.