A small carafe or decorative drinking vessel, sometimes with a stopper or lid.
From French carafon, a diminutive form of carafe, adding the French suffix -on to indicate something smaller than the original object.
The diminutive form carafon shows how languages create an entire hierarchy of sizes—French does this so naturally that it can make almost any noun smaller with just a suffix!
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