英和和英

名詞

roemer (複数形 roemers)

1. Alternative form of rummer
   • 1897, Albert Hartshorne, Old English Glasses: An Account of Glass Drinking Vessels in England, page 50:

     The delicate stringings, or wheeled quillings, also, round the necks of the roemers and berkemeyers are not less noteworthy than the stringings or spinnings―naturally never quilled―of their bases or footings.

   • 1999, Country Life, volume 193, page 118:

     Here the pipe and roemer glass obviously indicate taste and smell, and equally obviously, the transience of sensual pleasures.

   • 2016, Ted Sandling, London in Fragments: A Mudlark's Treasures:

     When I first saw complete roemers (often pronounced 'rummer', the name comes from the Dutch for making a toast, roemen) in the auction house where I was working, I knew their appeal went far beyond dedicated collectors.