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See also: porrón
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish porrón, from Catalan porró, possibly from porro (“leek”) or porra (“mace (weapon)”) because of its bulbous shape.[1]
Noun[edit]
porron (plural porrons)
- 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
- 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
- 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 porron in use.
- 2013 May 6, Kate Parham, “From Spain, a party in a porron”, in Washington Post[1], archived from the original on 2013-12-24:
- Turns out the group was enjoying a porron, a communal drinking vessel native to Spain.
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References[edit]
- ^ “porró”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
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Finnish[edit]
Noun[edit]
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