beer glass

beer glass

English

Alternative forms

• beer-glass, beerglass

Noun

beer glass (plural beer glasses)

1. A glass vessel, now frequently of a prescribed volume, for serving beer.
   • 1668, George Etherege, “She Wou'd If She Cou'd”, in A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays, published 1750, page 42:

     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.