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longbeard
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
longbeard \longbeard\ n.
a fat-bellied stoneware drinking jug with a long neck;
decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th
century).
Syn: bellarmine, graybeard.
[WordNet 1.5]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
