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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. Italian cardinal and theologian (1542-1621);
[syn: Bellarmine, Bellarmino, Cardinal Bellarmine, Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmine]

2. a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century);
[syn: bellarmine, longbeard, long-beard, greybeard]


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.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Bellarmine n 1: Italian cardinal and theologian (1542-1621) [syn: Bellarmine, Bellarmino, Cardinal Bellarmine, Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmine] 2: a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) [syn: bellarmine, longbeard, long-beard, greybeard]