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Nebuchadnezzar|nɛbjuːkədˈnɛzə(r)|
[So called in allusion to Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, d. 562 b.c.]
A very large wine-bottle (see quots.).
1913A. Huxley Let. 11 Nov. (1969) 55 Fireworks ensue, then (children dismissed) supper and afterwards, the most magnificent Nebuchadnezzars, and finally a good form of blind man's buff. 1962[see Balthazar]. 1967Punch 27 Sept. 484/3 In the thirtieth of fifty-one chapters, Patrick Forbes lists the eleven different sizes of champagne bottle, from the quarter-bottle to the Nebuchadnezzar, eighty times as big. 1967A. Lichine Encycl. Wines 317/2 Since wine ages more slowly in large bottles, there are many magnums and double magnums in the Lafite cellars, as well as Imperials, which hold eight bottles, and Nebuchadnezzars (ten bottles). 1970Simon & Howe Dict. Gastron. 80/2 Nebuchadnezzar, 20 bottles. |