What does cut-glass mean?
Cut-glass means Attributive form of cut glass (“made of cut glass”)..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Attributive form of cut glass (“made of cut glass”)..
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, […]
“Yes, I really was pinging,” she says, with that imperious cut-glass accent.
The princess had made occasional wartime radio broadcasts, her piping, stilted voice, speaking in cut-glass tones to the children of the empire, […]
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Cut-glass means Attributive form of cut glass (“made of cut glass”)..
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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, […]
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