seidel
Definitions
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- noun A beer mug.
Examples
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And two minutes afterward, without further ceremony or delay, the epicurean auditor has his feet under mahogany at the Hoftheater Cafe across the platz, with the seidel of that incomparable brew tilted elegantly toward face and his glad eyes smiling at Fraulein Sophie through the glass bottom.
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'One seidel please,' he says to the comely waitress, as he wipes the perspiration from his brow.
'A Beer Famine in Germany,' American Bottler, January 15, 1915
Note
This ultimately comes from the Latin 'situla,' bucket.
