vexing glass
vexing glass noun: a glass curiosity that is designed to create complex visual effects, often through the use of intricate surface patterns, and curved lenses or reflective surfaces.
Noun
vexing glass (plural vexing glasses)
- A glass curiosity that is designed to create complex visual effects, often through the use of intricate surface patterns, and curved lenses or reflective surfaces.
- In the German quarter of the city of New York, that is, in that part of the great American metropolis where German life appears as if it were reflected in a vexing glass' ; where the houses are high , the rooms low , and the streets narrow ; where the sunbeams breed miasma from the grocer's cabbage...1900, Henry W. Cherouny, The Burial of the Apprentice, page 11
- Normal notions, correctly appreciated by the intellect, thus become caricature when reflected in the vexing-glass of the emotions, and it cannot be surprising if individuals with such a contrary mind are prone to act in a contrary manner .1909, Heinrich Oppenheimer, The Criminal Responsibility of Lunatics, page 197
Forms of vexing glass
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Questions about vexing glass
- What does vexing glass mean?
- Vexing glass means a glass curiosity that is designed to create complex visual effects, often through the use of intricate surface patterns, and curved lenses or reflective surfaces.
- What part of speech is vexing glass?
- Vexing glass is a noun.
- What is the plural of vexing glass?
- The plural of vexing glass is vexing glasses.
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