beer glass

English

Beer glass, Czech Republic

Alternative forms

• beer-glass, beerglass

Noun

beer glass (plural beer glasses)

1. A glass vessel, now frequently of a prescribed volume, for serving beer.

   Hypernyms: glass, < dish

   Coordinate term: wine glass

   Near-synonym: pint glass

   • 1668, George Etherege, She Wou’d if She Cou’d, a Comedy. […], London: […] [John Macocke] for H[enry] 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.

See also

• stein