Stein - What does it mean?
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A beer mug, usually made of ceramic.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein . Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
*1974 , (Thomas Pynchon), (w, Gravity's Rainbow)
*:A gnome-size German civilian with a red von Hindenburg mustache is dispensing steins of what looks to be mostly head.
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