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
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Noun
  • In 2025 Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Wednesday, January 22nd Breaking Down This Bizarre Trade Between The Suns And Jazz By the time of his milestone, Sabathia was a pitcher who underwent an evolution.
    Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Two former New York Yankees, pitcher CC Sabathia and outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 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
  • More than 300 bottles of water are produced every minute at water bottling plants such as the ones located just minutes from the Spring where this image was shot.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Like water bottles, food cannot be stored in glass containers.
    Deanne Revel, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Hawley actually raised his fist in support of the rioters and printed the image on a cup for sale on his website.
    Aquilino Gonell, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • This recipe brings the warmth and decadence of a cup of hot cocoa into grab-and-go treats that have a brownie-like texture that can’t be topped.
    Krissy Tiglias, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Among these are an Indo-Portuguese brass and mother-of-pearl ewer from the early 17th century, and Carolina’s favorite: a portrait of Doña Isidora Navarro, a daughter of a large, upper-class Spanish family.
    Caitie Kelly Kin Woo Kate Guadagnino Nicole DeMarco Megan O’Sullivan, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • Picture a flask of vodka passed across a corpse, a pool of blood lit up by neon signs, an illicit kiss soundtracked by screams.
    Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The 16-year-old who attacked Elbit Systems used two thermos flasks packed with explosives in an attack on the Israeli defense company and was charged alongside a 23-year-old accomplice, according to Bloomberg.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024

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