cut glass

See also: cut-glass and cutglass

English

cut-glass punchbowl, US 1895

Noun

cut glass (uncountable)

1. Glass that has been cut, using an abrasive wheel, into a decorative pattern of facets.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

   • 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Cut-Glass Bowl”, in Scribner's Magazine‎^[1]:

     […] though cut glass was nothing new in the nineties, it was then especially busy reflecting the dazzling light of fashion from the Back Bay to the fastnesses of the Middle West.

Derived terms

• cutglass
• cut-glass

Translations

a decorative type of glassware

• French: taille du verre f
• German: geschliffenes Glas n
• Hungarian: metszett/csiszolt üveg
• Russian: хруста́ль (ru) m (xrustálʹ)

See also

• crystal

Further reading

• cut glass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia