Other forms: flagons
A flagon is a large vessel with a handle for holding drink. A flagon of ale, pass the flagon, a pewter flagon.
It is bigger than a jug and has a lid in the older form, and it belongs to inns, churches and fantasy taverns. In Australia and New Zealand a flagon is a large bottle of cheap wine or cider, which is a rather different picture.
1nounflagonA large vessel with a handle for holding drink.
“The innkeeper set a flagon of ale on the table in front of us.”
flagon is a vessel.
It is the same word as flask, grown large. A flagon is the flask big enough for the whole table.
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Old French flacon means a flask, from a Late Latin word for a bottle. Flask is a relative.
Proto-Indo-European
*pleḱ-
Proto-Germanic
*flaskǭ — bottle; flask; vessel covered with plaiting
Frankish
*flaska — bottle; flask
Latin
flascō — bottle; glass or earthenware vessel for wine; portable barrel
Medieval Latin
flascōnem
Old French
flacon
Middle French
flacon
Middle English
flagon
English, today
flagon
Built from
From Middle English flagon, flakonflagan, flaggon, from Middle French flacon, Old French flacon, flascon (“flask”) (modern French flacon (“vial”)), from Medieval Latin flascōnem, the accusative singular of Latin flascō (“bottle; glass or earthenware vessel for wine; portable barrel”), from Frankish flaska (“bottle; flask”), from Proto-Germanic flaskǭ (“bottle; flask; vessel covered with plaiting”), from Proto-Germanic flehtaną (“to braid, plait”) (from the practice of plaiting or wrapping bottles in straw casing), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European pleḱ- (“to fold; to plait, weave”). The English word is a a doublet of flacon and flask and fiasco. 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA