cut-glass

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See also: cutglass and cut glass

English

Adjective

cut-glass (not comparable)

  1. attributive form of cut glass (made of cut glass)
    • 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Cut-Glass Bowl”, in Scribner's Magazine:
      There was a rough stone age and a smooth stone age and a bronze age, and many years afterward a cut-glass age. In the cut-glass age, when young ladies had persuaded young men with long, curly mustaches to marry them, they sat down several months afterward and wrote thank-you notes for all sorts of cut-glass presents—punch bowls, finger-bowls, dinner-glasses, []
  2. Alternative form of cutglass (clearly enunciated)
    • 2021 March 27, Simon Hattenstone, “Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
      “Yes, I really was pinging,” she says, with that imperious cut-glass accent.
    • 2022 September 8, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian:
      The princess had made occasional wartime radio broadcasts, her piping, stilted voice, speaking in cut-glass tones to the children of the empire, []