Lager-beer
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 lager countable, dated, uncountable
"There was a vast amount of red - good to see at any time, because one knows that some real work is done in there, a deuce of a lot of blue, a little green, smears of orange, and, on the East Coast, a purple patch, to show where the jolly pioneers of progress drink the jolly lager-beer."
Example
More examples"There was a vast amount of red - good to see at any time, because one knows that some real work is done in there, a deuce of a lot of blue, a little green, smears of orange, and, on the East Coast, a purple patch, to show where the jolly pioneers of progress drink the jolly lager-beer."
Etymology
Partial calque of German Lagerbier (“beer made for storing”), from Lager (“store”).
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