flagon

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noun

a large bottle for wine, liquors, etc.
a container for holding liquids, as for use at table, especially one with a handle, a spout, and usually a cover.

Origin of flagon

1425–75; late Middle English, variant of flakon < Middle French fla(s)con < Late Latin flascōn- (stem of flascō) flask¹

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Related Words for flagon

vessel, bottle, cup, stein

Examples from the Web for flagon

Historical Examples of flagon

He raised his flagon and drank to him, with a merry flash of his white teeth.
The White Company
Arthur Conan Doyle
"Thou liest, knave," roared Jones menacing him with the flagon.
Standish of Standish
Jane G. Austin
I still kept inhaling the ether from the opening of my flagon.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
Guy de Maupassant
Henry Murger soaked them in a bottle of brandy or in a flagon of beer.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
Various
The page returned, bearing a large cup and a flagon of wine.
Millennium
Everett B. Cole

British Dictionary definitions for flagon

flagon

noun

a large bottle of wine, cider, etc
a vessel having a handle, spout, and narrow neck

Word Origin for flagon

C15: from Old French flascon, from Late Latin flascō, probably of Germanic origin; see flask

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Word Origin and History for flagon

mid-15c., from Middle French flacon, Old French flascon, from Late Latin flasconem (nominative flasco) "bottle" (see flask).