salmanazar
/ˌsalməˈneɪzə
/noun
A wine bottle of approximately twelve times the standard size.A salmanazar of Piper Heidsieck champagne is available at £399 from Greenacres of Wexford, and would be a perfect companion to a wedding toast....
- They sang ''Happy Birthday'' to Mr. Delacorte, who was marking his 93d and the theater's 25th. They yelled ''Break a leg!'' to Mr. Papp, the impresario of the New York Shakespeare Festival. Over and over, they toasted the pair with salmanazars of Mumm Champagne.
Origin
1930s: named after Shalmaneser, a king of Assyria (2 Kings 17–18).
Rhymes
- church covenanting
- churchdom
- church door
- church errant
- Churches of Christ
- Church Estates Commission
- Church Estates Commissioner
- church fair
- church father
- church festival
- church flag
- church folk
- church formula
- Church, Frederic Edwin
- churchful
- church fête
- church garth
- churchgoer
- churchgoing
- churchgoing bell
- church government
- church governor
- church grate
- church grith
- church hall