New Year's bottle

English
New Year's bottle on display at Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Geneva).

Noun

New Year's bottle (plural New Year's bottles)

  1. (archaeology) A kind of lentoid bottle found in the cultures of Ancient Egypt, designed to be filled with Nile water or possibly perfume or oil and offered as celebratory gifts for the New Year.
    Synonym: New Year's flask
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