beer glass

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Beer glass, Czech Republic

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Noun

beer glass (plural beer glasses)

  1. A glass vessel, now frequently of a prescribed volume, for serving beer.
    • 1668, George Etherege, She Wou’d if She Cou’d, a Comedy. , London: for H Herringman, , →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 40:
      How lovely will the Ladies look when / They have a Beer-glaſs in their hands!
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 509:
      Even then, as he poured a measure into a beer-glass, he almost forgot his mission.
    • 2001, Christopher Fowler, The Devil in Me, page 12:
      You could tell summer was coming because people were drinking on the street, searching for spaces on the windowsills of the pub to balance their beerglasses.

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