We drank a whole flagon of wine.
brought a flagon of wine to the table
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After helping one of the Dutchmen lug a keg of liquor to the game, Rip drinks several flagons, passes out, and wakes up two decades later.—John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025 No detail was overlooked — down to the drink’s flagon.—Violet Goldstone, WWD, 12 Sep. 2024 Their crop: wine, so fine the poet Dante sang its praises and medieval kings and popes guzzled it by the flagon.—Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2023 Under a vaulted ceiling, academics, museum workers, and the octopus-curious passed around a flagon of Kraken Rum.—Pearse Anderson, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2023 Reiche interjected that the resulting settlement contract is the first contract he's ever signed that included specific language about bees and about how many jars of honey must be exchanged per month for flagons of mead.—Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 11 June 2019 The only props that are mimed are those murderous meat pies — everything else, from flagons of ale to gleaming razors to assorted bloody body parts are brandished merrily by the sweaty, sooty-faced cast.—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 26 June 2018
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Middle French flascon, flacon bottle, from Late Latin flascon-, flasco — more at flask
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