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
We shall have dolphins and mullets, ortolans and beccaficos, musk sherbet from Constantinople, true Roman Falernian mingled with honey, and, to crown all, a Pythagorean peacock!
From Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
Villiam raised the Falernian nectar aloft, gazed solemnly at me, and says he: "Human Instink!"
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Newell, Robert H.
Such an accumulation of ancestors, it may well be supposed, left precious little room for the amphoræ of Chian, Lesbian, and Falernian.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
Brims like a bowl of Falernian wine Turned to the sun!
From His Lady of the Sonnets by Norwood, Robert W.
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