Meanings
adverbvitreously (not comparable)
- not comparableIn a vitreous manner.
The cosmopolitan turned a mild glance upon the speaker, who, now occupying the chair opposite him, sat there purely and coldly radiant as a prism. It seemed as if one could almost hear him vitreously chime and ring.
1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXXVI, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
Origin
Translations
Polish szkliście
- szkliściein a vitreous manner
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