subs. (old).—A large glazed drinking-jug with capacious belly and narrow neck, originally designed by the Protestant party in the Netherlands as a burlesque likeness of their great opponent, Cardinal Bellarmine.
1719. D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy (1872), VI, 201. With Jugs, Mugs, and Pitchers, and BELLARMINES of Stale.
1861. Our English Home, 170. The capacious BELLARMINE was filled to the brim with foaming ale.
