Rehoboam (French name: réhoboam) was a UK bottle size for wine and champagne.
Also refer
Wine bottle sizes.
Definition
6 reputed quarts.
Conversion
1 rehoboam = 6 reputed quarts
1 rehoboam = 1 UK gal
1 rehoboam = 0.004546092 m
3
Other uses
In the 1849 novel ''
Shirley'' by
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Nicholls (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), commonly known as Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ), was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë family, Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novel ...
, chapters 1 and 17, the clergyman Mr Helstone is described as wearing a "Rehoboam, or
shovel hat".
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Units of volume
Customary units of measurement