单词 | salmanazar |
释义 | Salmanazarn. A large size of wine-bottle. Cf. Balthazar n., jeroboam n., rehoboam n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > bottle > for liquor bombard1598 ingestar1611 flask1693 champagne bottle1772 magnum bonum1785 magnum1788 jeroboam1816 rehoboam1841 imperial1858 hock-bottle1892 Nebuchadnezzar1913 nip bottle1915 Balthazar1935 Methuselah1935 Salmanazar1935 miniature1939 1935 A. L. Simon Dict. Wine 225 Salmanazar, the fancy name given to a fancy bottle large enough to hold a dozen reputed quarts, or 9·60 litres, equal to 338·025 fluid ounces. 1959 Gloss. Terms Packaging (B.S.I.) 28 Salmanazar, a wine bottle—capacity 12 reputed quarts. 1962 Times 25 May 13/4 Methuselah.., Salmanasar, Balthasar, Nebuchadnezzar—‘usually applied respectively to eight, twelve, sixteen, and twenty bottle containers’. 1978 Daily Tel. 13 June 16/2 Edward Heath is to be given a salmanazar of champagne... A salmanazar contains the equivalent of 14 ordinary bottles. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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