Meanings
- attributivenot comparableAttributive 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, […]
1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Cut-Glass Bowl”, in Scribner's Magazine - alternativenot comparableAlternative form of cutglass (“clearly enunciated”).
“Yes, I really was pinging,” she says, with that imperious cut-glass accent.
2021 March 27, Simon Hattenstone, “Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN1 more example
The princess had made occasional wartime radio broadcasts, her piping, stilted voice, speaking in cut-glass tones to the children of the empire, […]
2022 September 8, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian
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