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Definition of Cut glass
1. Noun. Glass decorated by cutting or grinding facets.
Definition of Cut glass
1. Noun. Glass that has been cut, using an abrasive wheel, into a decorative pattern of facets ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cut Glass
Literary usage of Cut glass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"There is a Bohemian claim to the invention of cut glass early in the 17th ...
Cut-glass patternings are produced by first grinding away the main lines of ..."
2. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Warren Kendall Lewis (1916)
"In cut-glass ware, the design is cut in the solid glass, which has been given
its general form by blowing or pressing. ..."
3. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"Cut-glass butter-dish, cased, enamel on yellow. ... Cut-glass centre dish and
stand, green. The articles made in these colour» are gilt, enamelled, cut, ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"At the present time very good copies of cut-glass articles are made in pressed
goods, and at about one twentieth of the cost ; but the difference between ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Glass-cutting was a craft imported from Germany, but the English material so
greatly surpassed Bohemian glass in brilliance that the Bohemian cut-glass was ..."
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