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cranberry glass

cranberry glass noun: a type of reddish-pink transparent glass made by adding gold salts or colloidal gold to molten glass, most popular in 19th-century Britain.

cranberry glass: a type of reddish-pink transparent glass made by adding gold salts or colloidal gold to molten...
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Noun

cranberry glass (countable and uncountable, plural cranberry glasses)

  1. A type of reddish-pink transparent glass made by adding gold salts or colloidal gold to molten glass, most popular in 19th-century Britain.

Forms of cranberry glass

pluralcranberry glasses

Questions about cranberry glass

What does cranberry glass mean?
Cranberry glass means a type of reddish-pink transparent glass made by adding gold salts or colloidal gold to molten glass, most popular in 19th-century Britain.
What part of speech is cranberry glass?
Cranberry glass is a noun.
What is the plural of cranberry glass?
The plural of cranberry glass is cranberry glasses.

Words near cranberry glass in the dictionary

  1. cranberritas
  2. cranberry
  3. cranberry bean
  4. cranberry beans
  5. cranberry bush
  6. cranberry glass
  7. cranberry glasses
  8. cranberry juice
  9. cranberry juices
  10. cranberry morpheme
  11. cranberry morphemes

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