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
Why, it would have been a bath in Falernian wine!
From The Vicar's People by George Manville Fenn
Catius tells us how to drown fowls in Falernian wine, to render them more luscious and tender.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
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 A Sexton of the Old School
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
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