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flagon

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flag⋅on

  [flag-uhn]
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–noun
1. a large bottle for wine, liquors, etc.
2. a container for holding liquids, as for use at table, esp. one with a handle, a spout, and usually a cover.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME, var. of flakon < MF fla(s)con < LL flascōn- (s. of flascō) flask
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flag·on   (flāg'ən)   
n.  

  1. A large vessel, usually of metal or pottery, with a handle and spout and often a lid, used for holding wine or other liquors.

  2. The quantity of liquid that such a vessel can hold.


[Middle English, from Old French flacon, from Late Latin flascō, flascōn-, bottle; see flask.]
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Word Origin & History

flagon 
1459, from M.Fr. flacon, from O.Fr. flacon, from L.L. flasconem "bottle" (see flask).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bible Dictionary

Flagon

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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