jeroboam

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(You can go higher, too: Le Petit Mouton de Mouton Rothschild goes for around $220, while a jeroboam -- a six-liter bottle -- of Taittinger champagne is $600 plus.)

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  1. noun A wine bottle holding 4/5 of a gallon (3.03 liters).

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  • A human can build a miniature ship in an empty jeroboam, and a dragon can remove a face with as few as nine incisions. —  SON OF A WITCH
  • (You can go higher, too: Le Petit Mouton de Mouton Rothschild goes for around $220, while a jeroboam -- a six-liter bottle -- of Taittinger champagne is $600 plus.) —  WSJ.com: What's News US
  • Официальный сайт | Home Page - www. jeroboam.fr —  2BakSa.Net
  • "Or make a brandy jeroboam in a frosty morning, without license from a commissioner of excise," said the smuggler. —  The Black Dwarf
  • The very word affects me like a jeroboam of ether.
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  1. After Jeroboam I (died c. 901 B.C.), king of northern Israel.

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  1. So called in allusion to Jeroboam, “a mighty man of valour” (1 Ki. xi. 28), who became king of Israel.
 

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/dʒɛrəˈboʊəm/
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