单词 | roemer |
释义 | roemern. A type of decorated German or Dutch wine glass, typically having a wide base and a long, ornamental knobbed or ‘prunted’ stem. Cf. rummer n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > with tall stem > ornamented roemer1831 twist1897 1743 G. Turnbull & W. Guthrie tr. ‘Monsieur de Blainville’ Trav. I. xxxi. 312 His Servants presented to the Guests Goblets called in Germany Romers with all sorts of Wine. 1825 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. July 12/1 Its [sc. hock's] transparency has introduced the well-known custom of drinking it only out of green glasses... The glass is called a Romer.] 1831 J. Strang in Foster's Cabinet Misc. (1836) 5 xii. 118 We meet the wine-bibber, hastening..towards the Spandauenstrasse, to sip a römer of Mitcher's Hochheimer. 1860 Westm. Rev. July 134 Callous..that German must be who..did not find a drop of bitterness in that other roemer—the green glass from which he likes to sip his wine. 1897 A. Hartshorne Old Eng. Glasses 47 Germans were making roemers in the Low Countries before the middle of the seventeenth century. 1942 Burlington Mag. Dec. 299/1 The vessels depicted in Dutch still-life paintings are in fact as often of German as of Italian form—the Roemer, the Passglas. 1972 Country Life 23 Mar. 700/2 No one who is familiar with German and Dutch glass..can fail to notice..the prunts on the stems of the popular wine glass of those days—the roemer. 1992 ‘J. Gash’ Lies of Fair Ladies (1993) xxviii. 208 They were incorporated into antique roemers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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