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cut glass

noun

  1. glass ornamented or shaped by cutting or grinding with abrasive wheels.


cut glass

noun

    1. glass, esp bowls, vases, etc, decorated by facet-cutting or grinding
    2. ( as modifier )

      a cut-glass vase

  1. modifier (of an accent) upper-class; refined
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • ܳ- adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cut glass1

First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences

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The company, which used to cut acrylic, was not considered a machine tool-maker - but it eventually developed machinery to cut glass and became "the star of Apple's mobile phone surface processing," Mr Lin says.

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Originally from Staffordshire, Bailey made his money as a partner in Neale & Bailey, a very successful retailer of china and cut glass in the late 18th and early 19th Century.

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“Several kinds of wine, in handsome cut glass decanters, were cooling on the sideboard,” one British officer reported later.

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His perpetually fit father simply provides too target-rich an environment, with a jaw line that still could cut glass four decades after his first film role in “The Outsiders.”

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One officer had a hand wound from cut glass.

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