Back even further are the demijohns, large glass flagons in wicker baskets that hold, sometimes for almost a century, brandy that has grown too old to remain in the barrel.
Or there's cider where a flagon of scrumpy in September is the rugged equivalent of a jug of Pimms in June.
Fans of the HBO series "Game of Thrones" will have an opportunity to raise a flagon of ale in its honor next spring, when a new line of beers inspired by that series is introduced.
Over a flagon of wine in 1985, Campbell fired off a few joke job applications on behalf of his friend, including one to Eyre: "When I see your films, I get a funny nervous feeling inside… and suddenly, tonight, I know exactly what it is: I think I'm just about to come on.
It's practically a rite of passage, like renting a stretch hummer to go to your GCSE party, or necking a flagon of cider in a park.
In Irving's 1820 fable, Rip Van Winkle downs a flagon of Dutch gin in the Catskills, falls asleep a subject of George III and awakens 20 years later to discover he's missed the American Revolution and is now a free citizen of the United States.
A popular legend represents the bishop as descending from the window of his cell by a rope which friends had smuggled to him in a flagon of wine.
PAUL HESLOP, a burly Yorkshire lad who vacated a boring bank job in London eight years ago for a global seek-and-destroy mission against unexploded landmines and the like, pops up in the doorway of HALO USA's new outpost near Lincoln Center, a flagon of anti-jet-lag coffee in one fist, a dummy landmine in the other.
And the artist getting his very personal and private equipment out: pouring industrial quantities of HP Sauce over his prick and balls from a catering-size flagon, from where it slithers, in a sticky, aromatic brown flood, like so much spilled Gulf oil.
Both the active supplements and the placebo will be given to participants in a translucent flagon with only their sequence number on the label.
Stills were extravagantly camouflaged, even as cemetery plots: old pictures show these plots uncovered, with neat rows of glass flagons winking in the light.
