As Fiasco (ital. fiasco "bulgy bottle" too mittellat. flasco "kegs") one designates an straw-encased bottle for Chianti. Beyond that the designation Fiasco is used often also for other kinds of bottle and kinds of wine.

It developed already in the late Middle Ages from the clay/tone barrels of the antique ones; the straw casing served originally to stabilize at that time still thin-walled glass against the liquid pressure.

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• Columns Posted 10/30/01
  Dear Word Detective: I was in Italy recently, and someone mentioned that "fiasco" had something to do with the shape of the wine bottle and whether it was ...


• Fiasco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  This is similar to the informal British English usage of "to bottle out" meaning to "lose one's nerve". In modern American usage, the word fiasco is often ...


• fiasco - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary
  [French, from Italian fare fiasco, to make a bottle, fail, from fiasco, bottle (perhaps translation of French bouteille, bottle, error, used by the French ...


• fiasco. The American Heritage
  ETYMOLOGY:, French, from Italian fare fiasco, to make a bottle, fail, from fiasco, bottle (perhaps translation of French bouteille, bottle, error, ...


• fiasco: Definition, Synonyms and Much More From Answers.com
  fiasco n. , pl. -coes or -cos . A complete failure. [French, from Italian fare fiasco , to make a bottle, fail, from fiasco , bottle (perhaps.


• The Mavens' Word of the Day
  In some English language dictionaries, the first definition of fiasco is given as 'a flask, or bottle'. But most give the popular meaning we all know--'a ...