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bell-shaped curve |
bella sombra |
belladonna |
belladonna lily |
belladonna plant |
bellarmine
| bellarmino
| bellbird
| bellbottom
| bellbottom pants
| bellbottom trousers
bellarmine
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bellarmine has 2 senses
- bellarmine(n = noun.person) bellarmino, cardinal bellarmine, roberto francesco romolo bellarmine - Italian cardinal and theologian (1542-1621); Array is a kind of cardinal, theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer
- bellarmine(n = noun.artifact) greybeard, long-beard, longbeard - a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century); Array is a kind of jug
CIDE DICTIONARY
bellarmine, 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.]
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