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cut glass

cut glass noun: glass that has been cut, using an abrasive wheel, into a decorative pattern of facets.

cut glass: glass that has been cut, using an abrasive wheel, into a decorative pattern of facets
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Noun

cut glass (uncountable)

  1. Glass that has been cut, using an abrasive wheel, into a decorative pattern of facets.
    • He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
    • […] though cut glass was nothing new in the nineties, it was then especially busy reflecting the dazzling light of fashion from the Back Bay to the fastnesses of the Middle West.1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Cut-Glass Bowl”, in Scribner's Magazine

cut glass meaning in Tamil

cut glass in Tamil

கவின் வெட்டுக்கண்ணாடி

Words formed from cut glass

Questions about cut glass

What does cut glass mean?
Cut glass means glass that has been cut, using an abrasive wheel, into a decorative pattern of facets.
What is cut glass in Tamil?
Cut glass in Tamil is கவின் வெட்டுக்கண்ணாடி. See Cut glass meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cut glass?
Cut glass is a noun.

Words near cut glass in the dictionary

  1. cut down to size
  2. cut fastball
  3. cut fastballs
  4. cut for sign
  5. cut from the same cloth
  6. cut glass
  7. cut ice
  8. cut in
  9. cut in line
  10. cut into
  11. cut it

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