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flacons

  • plural
    of flacon.
    flacon
    noun
    a small bottle or flask with a stopper, especially one used for perfume.

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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

Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman, for instance, marks its perfume flacons with a secret symbol that can be seen only at a certain angle through the glass.

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