Falernian
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Falernian
1720–30; < Latin ( ager ) Falern ( us ) Falernian (field) + -ian
Example Sentences
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The Falernian, from Southern Italy, by contrast, was “strong” and “powerful”; Pliny the Elder wrote that “there is now no wine known that ranks higher.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 29, 2015
Brims like a bowl of Falernian wine Turned to the sun!
From His Lady of the Sonnets by Robert W. Norwood
He's a philosopher after the pattern of Seneca, who inculcated contempt of wealth by drinking Falernian in a gold cup.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
I have my plane tree, my jug of old Falernian.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
Why, it would have been a bath in Falernian wine!
From The Vicar's People by George Manville Fenn
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