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longbeard

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.

longbeard

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.

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longbeard

n. A male senior citizen.

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longbeard

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

Usage examples of "longbeard".

Ronsard stood and was about to return his long-empty ale jar to the bar when Longbeard entered.

He glanced up to see old Longbeard standing on a table pointing at him.

Rhineland, named Eberhard Longbeard because he let his beard grow, had, before he was sixty years old, acquired for himself some of the Imperial territory, and was besieging a certain castle named Lendenbrunnen because of the raids which were made by the men of the castle.

FitzOsbert, known as Longbeard, was the spokesman of the popular discontent.

Soon after their smashing success against the ogres and goblins on the ledges outside their mines, the fighting longbeards had realized that they could not sit idly by while orcs and goblins and even worse monsters destroyed the world around them.

Where were the longbeards, the grizzled old men who had manned the rail at LaFata?

He opened his eyes to find a tall, longbearded man staring back at him.

The longbearded papa, surprised at my sudden apparition, enquires whether I am Romeo (a Greek).