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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1479-1627
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Flac(c)on(e, Flackon(e, n. Also: flak(k)on, flak-, flaikcon, flakoun; flacoun, flaccoun(e, -own, flackoun, flackcon; flaucon, flawkon; flek-, fleckoun. [e.m.E. flaccon, ME. flakon (1485), OF. flacon.] A flagon.(a) 1479 Acts Lords of Council 26/2.
A pare of flakonis of siluer 1533 Boece x. xvi. 392 b.
Flakouns of aqua vite 1562 Invent. Q. Mary p. cxlix.
Ane flakkon 1597 Halyb. p. cxiii.
Flakonis of tyn the dosane(b) 1513 Doug. vii. ii. 89.
In flacon and in skull Thai skynk the wyne 1548 Treasurer's Accounts IX. 195.
For tua flaconnes of tyn … to my lord governoures cophous 1578 Maxwell Mem. I. 312.
Ane greit tin flacoun, and ane choppin flacoun 1598 Black Bk. Taymouth 330.
A tin quart flacoun … for vinagir 1624 Edinburgh Testaments LII. 294.
Tua chock glass flacones at fyve pund the pece(c) 1513 Doug. ix. v. 99.
I sall ȝou geif … the crafty ancyant flacconys two 1540 Lynd. Sat. Procl. 19.
With gude stark wyne ȝour flacconis see ȝe fill 1562 Invent. Q. Mary 55.
Item twa blew flaccownis garnisit with tin, … ane vther blew flaccoune 1597 Edinburgh Testaments XXX. 44.
xxxiij quart flacconeis(d) 1562 Will A. Betoun 225.
Ane tyn flackon 1582 Treasurer's Accounts 67.
Mending of sum brockin siluer flackonis and coupis 1587 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 292.
For fowir glas flackconis to put wynager in 1595 Duncan App. Etym.
Lagena, a flackoun(e) 1530 Balmerino and L. Chart. ii. 31.
Ane rownd flawkon of estland burd 1589 Exchequer Rolls XXII. 73.
Aucht tin flauconis 1591 Edinburgh Testaments XXIII. 269.
Tua greit quhyte siluer flekounnis of markit fyne siluer 1607 Ib. XLIII. 46 b.
Ane litill tin fleckoun
b. Attrib. with glas, hinger. 1602 Treasurer's Accounts 151.
Tua dosane flaccone hingeris to his maiesteis wyne seller 1627 Edinburgh Testaments LIV. 28 b.
Fyve dosone of flackone glasis
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