milk glass

English

Bowl made of milk glass

Etymology

(opaque glass): Referring to the milky look of this type of glass.

Noun

milk glass (countable and uncountable, plural milk glasses)

1. (usually uncountable) Opaque glass, especially the kind having a white shade; first produced in Italy in the 1500s as an imitation of Chinese porcelain.

   Alternative forms: milk-glass, milkglass

2. (countable) A drinking glass intended or currently used for milk.

Hypernyms

• opal glass

Translations

white, opaque glass

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• Bulgarian: матово стъкло (matovo stǎklo)
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• Dutch: melkglas n
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• Hungarian: tejüveg (hu)
• Polish: szkło mleczne n
• Portuguese: vidro leitoso m
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