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pressed glass
noun
- molded glass that has been shaped or given its pattern, while molten, by the action of a plunger thrust into the mold.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pressed glass1
First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences
American writers claim that the first pressed glass tumbler was made about 40 years back in that country, by a carpenter.
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Serafina came back, bringing two heavy tumblers of pressed glass on a little black japanned tray, with a decanter of cold water.
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But this is imitated in pressed glass, which is blown in a mould inside of which the design is cut.
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Did you ever do it, reader, with one of those pressed glass bottles they make now?
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They were rarely of cut or colored glass, but were pressed glass of commonplace form and quality.
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