flacon
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Etymology
Origin of flacon
From French, dating back to 1815–25; see origin at flagon
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"Before the war the cost of a flacon from distributors was 0.75-1.40 euros, now it's 1.00-1.50 euros," De Vitis said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 12, 2022
On the video, Vogt said he had opened the flacon on a Monday but only been able to find takers for six of its doses by Wednesday afternoon, three days later.
From Washington Times ● May 5, 2021
Less than an hour after the preview opened, a European collector bought an 18th-century, diamond-studded ivory perfume flacon.
From Economist ● Apr. 10, 2018
Guerlain executives mined the brand’s archives and chose a streamlined flacon with a quadrilobe stopper dating from 1908.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2017
And as he spoke, without leaving his grasp of the King’s wrist, Leoni thrust the hand at liberty into his breast and drew forth a little golden flacon, which glistened in the light.
From The King's Esquires The Jewel of France by Fenn, George Manville
Their tiny glass perfume flacons, worn on a chain around the neck, were adorned in enamel with ukiyo-e-inspired scenes of snow-capped mountains or herons in fields of jonquils.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2021
The fragrances are bottled in crystal flacons, modeled after liquor decanters, and will sell for $500 for 250 milliliters and $300 for 100 milliliters at ebflorals.com starting in late spring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2015
The villagers have signed a pact with non-governmental bodies to assist the state's forest department in helping conserve the Amur flacons in Doyang Reservoir, the paper says.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2013
But now materials are coming in again and the big copper tanks and brown bottles are filled with tens of millions of francs worth of extracts, which white-robed girls dribble carefully into flacons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before bathing he would perfume the pool with the salts that he carried in three alabaster flacons.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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