Cut-glass
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Attributive form of cut glass (“made of cut glass”). attributive, form-of, not-comparable
"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, […]"
- 2 Alternative form of cutglass (“clearly enunciated”). alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
"“Yes, I really was pinging,” she says, with that imperious cut-glass accent."
Example
More examples"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, […]"
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