Meanings
plural lager-beers
- countabledateduncountablelager
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.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 199
Origin
- GermanLagerbier“beer made for storing”
- Englishlager-beer
Partial calque of German Lagerbier (“beer made for storing”), from Lager (“store”).
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