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porrons

porrons is the plural of porron.

Meaning of porron

Noun

porron (plural porrons)

  1. A glass container for wine for table use, with a long neck at the top for filling and holding and a long thin spout at the side to enable pouring into the mouth from a distance
    • A porron is a sort of glass bottle with a pointed spout from which a thin jet of wine spurts out whenever you tip it up; you can thus drink from a distance, without touching it with your lips, and it can be passed from hand to hand. I went on strike and demanded a drinking-cup as soon as I saw a...1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC

Questions about porrons

What is porrons the plural of?
Porrons is the plural of porron.

Words near porrons in the dictionary

  1. Porro
  2. Porro prism
  3. Porro prisms
  4. Porroh
  5. porron
  6. porrons
  7. Porros
  8. PORs
  9. Porsan
  10. Porscha
  11. Porsche

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