roemer

plural roemers

1. alternativeAlternative form of rummer.

   Here the pipe and roemer glass obviously indicate taste and smell, and equally obviously, the transience of sensual pleasures.

   1999, Country Life, volume 193, page 118

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   The delicate stringings, or wheeled quillings, also, round the necks of the roemers and berkemeyers are not less noteworthy than the stringings or spinnings―naturally never quilled―of their bases or footings.

   1897, Albert Hartshorne, Old English Glasses: An Account of Glass Drinking Vessels in England, page 50

   When I first saw complete roemers (often pronounced 'rummer', the name comes from the Dutch for making a toast, roemen) in the auction house where I was working, I knew their appeal went far beyond dedicated collectors.

   2016, Ted Sandling, London in Fragments: A Mudlark's Treasures

plural Roemers

1. A surname from German.