balthazar
/balˈθazə
/noun
A very large wine bottle, equivalent in capacity to sixteen regular bottles.For the reception, there will be a classic champagne fountain poured from a giant Balthazar bottle of Veuve Clicquot....
- Some years ago, he found a Balthazar bottle in a store of wine he had acquired.
Origin
1930s: from Balthazar, the name of the king of Babylon, who ‘made a great feast … and drank wine before a thousand’ (Dan. 5:1).