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  • noun Plural form of stein.

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Examples

  • Every table was filled, a lunch crowd of gamblers and streetwalkers shoveling kraut and links from hot bins into their plates, swigging from steins of brew.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • And just as we were filling our beer steins to the brim, who should pop by but the classy, gentlemanly, and (who knew?) funny Epperson.

    'Project Runway Talk': Epperson dishes on dubious judging ... and Lindsay Lohan! | EW.com 2009

  • Concert opera is always a touch surreal — hey, all those Meistersinger are in James Bond tuxedos! — but Morris and Botha had the inspired idea to put their on-stage drinking water in old-fashioned beer steins.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • She moved to get two shot glasses and two beer steins.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • Concert opera is always a touch surreal — hey, all those Meistersinger are in James Bond tuxedos! — but Morris and Botha had the inspired idea to put their on-stage drinking water in old-fashioned beer steins.

    Wagner? I just met her! Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Every table was filled, a lunch crowd of gamblers and streetwalkers shoveling kraut and links from hot bins into their plates, swigging from steins of brew.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • Just at the time Walt Disney was refining his theory of the theme park, Lüchow's was a mature one: A great, romantic warren of tall rooms above whose smoke-pickled wainscoting hung paintings of castles brooding on moonlit crags, and beer steins as tall as I was.

    If These Plates Could Talk Richard Snow 2011

  • Every table was filled, a lunch crowd of gamblers and streetwalkers shoveling kraut and links from hot bins into their plates, swigging from steins of brew.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • Dubbed "an everyday rental for an everyday family" by Ms. November, the inside offered a white-leather sofa, a jukebox featuring Tina Turner tunes and a collection of beer steins.

    No Place for Holly Golightly Anne Kadet 2011

  • Surrounding this dinner table were baseball hats, war memorabilia and beer steins.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011

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