'Bellarmine' definitions:
Definition of 'Bellarmine'
(from WordNet)
noun
Italian cardinal and theologian (1542-1621) [syn: Bellarmine, Bellarmino, Cardinal Bellarmine, Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmine]
noun
A stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) [syn: bellarmine, longbeard, long-beard, greybeard]
Definition of 'Bellarmine'
From: GCIDE
- 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.]