Florence flask

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noun

a round bottle having a flat bottom and long neck, for use in laboratories.

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Origin of Florence flask

First recorded in 1735–45

Words nearby Florence flask

Floréal, floreat, floreated, Florence, Florence fennel, Florence flask, Florencio Varela, Florentine, Florentine stitch, flores, florescence

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How to use Florence flask in a sentence

The company recently partnered with Oakley to create a one-of-a-kind single malt Scotch flask.
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Then, from a pocket inside his camouflage top, he pulled a hidden stainless steel flask.
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Arthur Acton decided to go into business with a neighbor in Florence, Bernard Berenson.
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According to Hales, Florence was a town ruled by and for men.
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Madison, who sat at the front of the room hiding his flask, was just the beginning.
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And more than one broken flask on its way to the rubbish heap was carefully carried up the hill to the hidden family.
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Rashid, the attendant, knew all Kazmah's clients, and with the box or flask he gave them a quantity of the required drug.
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Ward picked up a flask of corn whiskey and slipped it into his hip pocket.
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You are thinking: Lucky fellow, first he writes from Venice and then from Florence.
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One of the women raised Mysie up, gave her a drink from a flask containing cold tea, and sat her aside to rest a short time.
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British Dictionary definitions for Florence flask

Florence flask

noun

a round flat-bottomed glass flask with a long neck, used in chemical experiments

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