A flagon is typically of about 2 imperial pints (1.1 l) in volume, and it has either a handle (when strictly it is a jug), or (more usually) one or two rings at the neck.
What is a Roman flagon?
As a Roman Catholic term of use, the flagon is the large vessel, usually glass and metal, that holds the wine. ... A smaller container called a cruet is used for the priest's chalice, usually identical to the cruet of water, which is mingled with the wine before consecration.
How do you use flagon in a sentence?
Examples of flagon
- I deny absolutely that there was any waving of flagons or anything of the kind.
- I saw no flagons there.
- There is also a silver chalices and patens of 1837 and 1877 and a silver-gilt flagon of 1869.
- This pouring of the precious blood from flagon to chalice was eliminated.
