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handblown

handblown adjective: blown by hand, without the use of machinery.

Adjective

handblown (not comparable)

  1. Blown by hand, without the use of machinery
    • But of all the extravagances that reflected the country’s new wealth and glory, Mr. Giunta became most fixated on the bouquets’ vases: typically baroque handblown Venetian goblets of sap-green glass.2007 June 3, David Colman, “When in the Netherlands...”, in New York Times

Forms of handblown

alternative formhand-blown

Origin of handblown

From hand + blown.

Questions about handblown

What does handblown mean?
Handblown means blown by hand, without the use of machinery.
What part of speech is handblown?
Handblown is an adjective.

Words near handblown in the dictionary

  1. handbikes
  2. handbill
  3. handbills
  4. handblocked
  5. handblow
  6. handblown
  7. handblows
  8. handboard
  9. handboarded
  10. handboarding
  11. handboards

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