bocal

Noun

bocal (plural bocals or bocaux)

1. A curved, tapered metal tube which connects the reed of several double reed woodwind instruments (such as the cor anglais, bassoon, and contrabassoon) to the rest of the instrument.
2. A cylindrical glass vessel with a short wide neck.
   • Something very similar to Faust’s cell presented itself to the view of Jehan when he ventured his head within the half-open door. It was a similar gloomy, dim-lighted nook. There was also a large fauteuil and a large table; compasses; alembics; skeletons of animals suspended from the ceiling; a...1888, Victor Hugo, anonymous translator, “Ἀνάγκη [Anánkē]”, in Notre-Dame de Paris. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: The Athenaeum Society, →OCLC, book VII, page 45
   • One of the biggest features of this Grasse perfume industry is the distillation of these essences in their simple forms, selling them in bulk, in demijohns and estagons and bocaux, to the wholesale perfume makers, the fabricators and the second fusion operators throughout the worid.1922 September 3, Blanche McManus, “The Town that Perfumes the World”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 74, number 363, St. Louis, Mo., →ISSN, →OCLC, “The Post-Dispatch Sunday Magazine” section...