cut-glass
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]cut-glass (not comparable)
- attributive form of cut glass (“made of cut glass”)
- 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Cut-Glass Bowl”, in Scribner's Magazine[1]:
- There was a rough stone age and a smooth stone age and a bronze age, and many years afterward a cut-glass age. In the cut-glass age, when young ladies had persuaded young men with long, curly mustaches to marry them, they sat down several months afterward and wrote thank-you notes for all sorts of cut-glass presents—punch bowls, finger-bowls, dinner-glasses, […]
- Alternative form of cutglass (“clearly enunciated”)
- 2022 September 8, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian[3]:
- The princess had made occasional wartime radio broadcasts, her piping, stilted voice, speaking in cut-glass tones to the children of the empire, […]