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单词 salmanazar
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Salmanazarn.

/salməˈneɪzə/
Forms: Also Salmanasar.
Etymology: < Salmanasar, the form in the Vulgate of the name of Shalmaneser, King of Assyria (II Kings xvii, xviii).
A large size of wine-bottle. Cf. Balthazar n., jeroboam n., rehoboam n. 1.
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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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