[F. flacon; the word was adopted in wider sense in ME.; see FLAGON.] A small stoppered bottle; esp. a scent-bottle or smelling-bottle.
1824. Scott, Redgauntlet, Let. xii. The exercise of the fan, the flacon and the other duties of the Cavaliere Serviente.
1841. Lady Blessington, Idler in France, I. 251. An étui of gold set with oriental agates and brilliants, and a flacon of rock crystal, both of which once appertained to Madame de Sévigné, vanquished my prudence.
1872. Longf., in Life (1891), III. 208. I received the other day a valuable and curious present from England,—namely, Coleridge’s inkstand; and only wish he had left some of his poems in it. It is an oblong ebony tray, with two glass flacons for the ink.
