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noun
1.
a large bottle for wine, liquors, etc.
2.
a container for holding liquids, as for use at table, especially one with a handle, a spout, and usually a cover.
Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English, variant of flakon < Middle French fla(s)con < Late Latin flascōn- (stem of flascō) flask
1425–75; late Middle English, variant of flakon < Middle French fla(s)con < Late Latin flascōn- (stem of flascō) flask
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Word Origin & History
flagon
mid-15c., from M.Fr. flacon, from O.Fr. flacon, from L.L. flasconem "bottle" (see flask).
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Bible Dictionary
Flagon definition
Heb. ashishah, (2 Sam. 6:19; 1 Chr. 16:3; Cant. 2:5; Hos. 3:1), meaning properly "a cake of pressed raisins." "Flagons of wine" of the Authorized Version should be, as in the Revised Version, "cakes of raisins" in all these passages. In Isa. 22:24 it is the rendering of the Hebrew _nebel_, which properly means a bottle or vessel of skin. (Comp. 1 Sam. 1:24; 10:3; 25:18; 2 Sam. 16:1, where the same Hebrew word is used.)
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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