Definition of Drinking glass

1. Noun. A container for holding liquids while drinking.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Drinking Glass

drinking-bout
drinking-bouts
drinking-horn
drinking-horns
drinking-up time
drinking age
drinking behaviour
drinking bout
drinking bouts
drinking chocolate
drinking cup
drinking fountain
drinking fountains
drinking game
drinking games
drinking man's degree
drinking song
drinking songs
drinking straw
drinking straws
drinking vessel
drinking water
drinking waters
drinkings
drinkless
drinks
drinkware
drinkworthy
drinky

Literary usage of Drinking glass

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"A large drinking-glass, or vessel. The German bêcher. Fill me л beaker, looke it be good beert. In others whole «-oods of cypress ..."

2. Lectures on the English Language by George Perkins Marsh (1887)
"A drinking-glass is not a glass to be drunk; but neither is it the glass that drinks, the day that works, or the wheel that spins. ..."

3. A Student's History of England from the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1902)
"... as hops were not drinking glass, (British Museum ) introduced till many centuries later. In wealthy houses imported wine was to be had. ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... threads and prunts is illustrated by the development of the " Roemer," so popular as a drinking-glass, and as a feature in Dutch studies of still life. ..."

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