flacon

Borrowed from French flacon. Doublet of fiasco, flagon, and flask.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflækɒn/, /ˈflɑːkɒn/

flacon (plural flacons)

1. A small stoppered glass bottle, often used for keeping perfume.
   • October 24, 1872, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, letter to G. W. Greene

     two glass flacons for the ink

• Falcon, falcon

Inherited from Middle French flascon, from Late Latin flascō. Doublet of fiasco and flasque.

• IPA^(key): /fla.kɔ̃/

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flacon m (plural flacons)

1. vial, flacon

• “flacon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French flacon. Doublet of fiasco.

flacon n (plural flacoane)

1. small bottle (for medicine, cosmetics)