Meanings
- uncountableGlass that has been cut, using an abrasive wheel, into a decorative pattern of facets.
[…] 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 Magazine1 more example
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 for his own.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
Translations
French taille du verre
- taille du verrea decorative type of glassware
German geschliffenes Glas
- geschliffenes Glasa decorative type of glassware
Hungarian metszett/csiszolt üveg
- metszett/csiszolt üvega decorative type of glassware
Russian хруста́ль
- хруста́ль (xrustálʹ)a decorative type of glassware
Turkish billur
- billura decorative type of glassware
Cite this entry
cut glass. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cut%20glass
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