Balthazar: nm (word coming by Balthazar, King of Jerusalem).
Orgy, debauchery, and more particularly feast. We made a hell of a balthazar.
King Balthazar (not to be confused with the Magus King of the same name) was the regent of Babylon.
He was killed in 539 BC by Cyrus, king of the Persians while he was engaged in a final orgy. When the Persians entered Babylon, an invisible hand had written on the walls of the banquet hall: "Mane, thecel, pharès" which means in Hebrew: "counted, weighed, divided" in other words: "God has counted your days, you were weighed and found too light, your kingdom will be divided ”.
Hebrew says a lot in a few words.
The term "balthazar" is hardly used any more in the sense of banquet.
But, since around 1800, it has been used, and this meaning has persisted, to designate a large bottle of champagne equivalent to 16 ordinary bottles, always by allusion to abundance and excess.