as in pitcher
a handled container for holding and pouring liquids that usually has a lip or a spout brought a flagon of wine to the table

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Recent Examples of flagon 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 For every bit of speechifying there is a voluble reaction: waved arms, hoisted flagons and shouts of boyish humor. Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 6 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flagon
Noun
  • The Diamondbacks righty has been excellent for nearly all of his big league career, but during a contract season, he's been a bottom-of-the-barrel pitcher.
    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
  • Canning is the third starting pitcher the Mets have lost to injury since June 12 when Kodai Senga went down with a hamstring strain.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Bring gloves, utility scissors and a clean milk jug.
    Staff report, Chicago Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Councell tapped a plastic jug the size of a garden shed containing sugar water, nearby another full of corn syrup.
    Bill Weir, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
Noun
  • Inspired by sunlight and crafted from botanical and healing notes, the copper bottle pays homage to nature’s energy and the House’s heritage, incorporating traditional goldsmith techniques, each flacon is a one-of-a-kind object d'art.
    Felicity Carter, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • The painting includes portraits of two children, one with wide-open, frightened eyes and the other with eyes closed, somberly sipping on a bottle of Coca-Cola.
    Hung Duong, Artforum, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Bikes The bikes took over the city streets during COVID, When New Yorkers discovered that everything could be delivered, Including a cup of coffee from Starbucks, for some reason.
    Jenny Allen, New Yorker, 19 June 2025
  • Tasting begins at 11 a.m., with $2 sample cups or a $25 Master Ticket for sampling all the chili and voting.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Peer at the pendulous breasts on a Medici workshop ewer or those on a screeching siren centered on an 18th-century scalloped sweetmeat dish.
    Lisa Wong Macabasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Paintings of elaborate feasts hang alongside beautiful and unique dishes, ewers and platters, and glimpses of recipes through historical cookbooks.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 29 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • On his delivery routes, Bridges drinks from a flask to keep hydrated, and catches and eats bugs when peckish.
    Simon Parkin, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025
  • Naked running belt: $48 This belt by Naked, on sale for less than $50 at Amazon, holds your hydration flasks and carries your cell phone, energy gels, fuel bars and sunglasses.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Flagon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flagon. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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