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a
: a large usually metal or pottery vessel (as for wine) with handle and spout and often a lid
b
: a large bulging short-necked bottle
2
: the contents of a flagon
Examples of flagon in a Sentence
We drank a whole flagon of wine.
brought a flagon of wine to the table
Recent Examples on the Web
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.
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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
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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
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“Flagon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flagon. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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flagon
noun
flag·on
ˈflag-ən 
: a container for liquids usually having a handle, spout, and lid
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