a. [f. as prec. + -IAN.] Of or pertaining to the ager Falernus in Campania, which produced a celebrated wine. Also absol. Falernian wine.
1726. Amherst, Terræ Fil., i. 2. Or, whose lady kiss’d Damon the butler behind a hogshead of Falernian, when her husband was hunting the boar?
a. 1764. Lloyd, Dial. betw. Author & Friend, Poet. Wks. 1774, II. 6.
| And shall the gen’rous liquor run, | |
| Broach’d from the rich Falernian tun? |
1842. Lytton, Zanoni, 29. Vineyards famous for the old Falernian.
1884. Janet Ross, Virgil and Agriculture in Tuscany, in Longm. Mag., Feb., 404. White Falernian [wine] is excellent, and has an aroma and bouquet of its own, withal strong and generous.
