jeroboam
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He never seemed to find the right occasion for a Jeroboam, which contains the equivalent of four regular bottles of wine.
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023
His son hopped online to research its value and stumbled across an article in the Drinks Business about Bonhams Skinner selling a 1971 La Tâche Jeroboam in October for $81,250.
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023
Current excavators favour a construction date in the first half of the eighth century bc, during the reign of Jeroboam II; a few think the structure is not a stable, but storehouses or barracks.
From Nature • Feb. 25, 2020
After Renaldo Maurice crouched and collapsed to the floor, Jeroboam Bozeman collected his body and propped him up so that they sat back to back.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2017
Hence Rehoboam was succeeded by Abiam not in the eighteenth, but in the twenty-second year of Jeroboam; Ahab ascended the throne not in the thirty-sixth, but in the fifty-fourth year of Asa.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Duncker, Max