Meanings
plural porrons
- A glass container for wine for table use, with a long neck at the top for filling and holding and a long thin spout at the side to enable pouring into the mouth from a distance
Turns out the group was enjoying a porron, a communal drinking vessel native to Spain.
2013 May 6, Kate Parham, “From Spain, a party in a porron”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 24 Dec 20131 more example
A porron is a sort of glass bottle with a pointed spout from which a thin jet of wine spurts out whenever you tip it up; you can thus drink from a distance, without touching it with your lips, and it can be passed from hand to hand. I went on strike and demanded a drinking-cup as soon as I saw a porron in use.
1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC
Origin
Translations
Catalan porró
- porróglass container for wine
Spanish porrón
- porrónglass container for wine
Cite this entry
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