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Definition of Brandy glass
1. Noun. A globular glass with a small top; used for serving brandy.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brandy Glass
Literary usage of Brandy glass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1904)
"... kegs of brandy, glass necklaces, bracelets of tinsel, earrings, and
looking-glasses.7 If, when they have beheld all these riches, they still hesitate, ..."
2. Stories by Foreign Authors (1898)
"Another time, the church starost * himself, who was fond of an occasional private
interview with my grandfather's brandy-glass, had not succeeded in getting ..."
3. The History of Modern Painting by RICHARD. MUTHER (1907)
"... ruined men lingering over the brandy glass in grimy taverns, and, as a lugubrious
reverse to the picture, shivering children crouching cold and hungry ..."
4. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel (1874)
"... n. brandy glass; —frente, /. (-fa«, n. —loben, m.) gin-shop, whisky- Лор,
grog-shop; ..."
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