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methuselah Definition


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methuselah
noun
    1. A size of wine bottle that contains eight times as much as a standard 75cl bottle.
    2. A very old person or thing.
Etymology: 14c in sense 2; 1930s in sense 1: named after Methuselah, a biblical patriarch reputed (see Genesis 5.27) to have lived to the age of 969.



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