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Old-fashioned wine holder
Answer for the clue "Old-fashioned wine holder ", 6 letters:
flagon
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Word definitions for flagon in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flagon \Flag"on\, n. [F. flacon, for flascon, fr. OF. flasche, from LL. flasco. See Flask .] A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. It is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass. A ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large metal or pottery vessel with a handle and spout; used to hold alcoholic beverages (usually wine)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A large bottle for drinks such as wine or cider. 2 The amount that such a bottle holds, about 1.13 litres. 3 A large vessel usually with a handle, spout and lid, for drinks such as wine or cider.
Usage examples of flagon.
Dodging past servers with flagons and wooden trenchers, Alec made his way through the crowd.
A long, tall flagon of amberjack was in her hand, and a slim long sword at her hip.
More than once she reached toward the flagon, seduced by the ambery liquid.
When I went on board ship with the Bailo Jean Dona, I found another case given to me by him, containing two quintals of the best Mocha coffee, one hundred pounds of tobacco leaves, two large flagons filled, one with Zabandi tobacco, the other with camussa, and a magnificent pipe tube of jessamine wood, covered with gold filigrane, which I sold in Corfu for one hundred sequins.
Instead, Pompey drew up the second-best chair and seated himself only after pouring wine from the flagon containing a Chian vintage so fine that Hortensius had wept in frustration when Pompey beat him to it.
Multiply nine thousand five hundred by twenty-five, and you have two hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred flagons of an unparalleled collection of Falernian, Chian, Fucine, Samian.
I answered gravely that I did not want the money, and that I had augmented the first flagon only for the sake of procuring him an agreeable surprise.
I got a new hold of him as we staggered and plunged, roaring the while like the wild beasts we were, the teeth chattering in the Martian heads as they watched us, and then, exerting all my strength, lifted him fairly from his feet and with supreme effort swung him up, shoulder high, and with a mighty heave hurled him across the tables, flung that ambassador, whom no Martian dared look upon, crashing and sprawling through the gold and silver of the feast, whirled him round with such a splendid send that bench and trestle, tankards and flagons, chairs and cloths and candelabras all went down into thundering chaos with him, and the envoy only stayed when his sacred person came to harbour amongst the westral odds and ends, the soiled linen, and dirty platters of our wedding feast.
In the course of conversation he inquired laughingly why I had bought one of his flagons of mercury.
Flagons of cider were passed round, also a small double-handed cup with wine in honour of the guests, which was carried to myself and Hasting by the hands of the fair Bessie.
My plans were laid, and I asked him to let me have one of the flagons of mercury at the current price, and took it to my room.
The Greek, whose surprise was complete, asked me to give him back his own flagon, which was there quite full, and worth sixty carlini.
It is not a single drink that the defendant asks for--not a glass of light and generous wine, to be shared with his inamorata, but a number of flagons or vessels, each possibly holding a pint measure--FOR HIMSELF!
Their pack-saddles held coils of sausage, flagons of wine and boxes of cigarettes, sacks of Zanjian kave beans and cured hams from the Stalwart territories.
She removed her hand from the crysknife hilt, lifted her flagon to Kynes, who responded in kind.