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glass case
1. (as two words). A case with the upper part made chiefly of glass, so that the objects contained may be seen but not handled. (The first quot. may belong to 2.)
1649Bury Wills (Camden) 220, I give vnto my daughter Mary Chapman..a glascase, a leafe table [etc.]. 1709Steele Tatler No. 34 ⁋5 The China Figure of a Lady in the Glass-Case. 1788H. Walpole Remin. ix. 74 She..decorated waxen dolls of him and of herself to be exhibited in glass-cases in Westminster-Abbey. 1834T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 103 [A temple] that deserves to be carved in ivory, and put into a glass case. 1857Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1870) II. 357 His veritable cardinal's hat, in a richly ornamented glass case.
†b. Gardening. A garden frame. Obs.
1819Rees Cycl., Glass-case.
c. jocosely. A place partitioned off with glass or glazed panels.
1776Foote Capuchin i. Wks. 1799 II. 388, I saw him in one of the glass-cases at church;..his majesty looked at me very hard. 1855Dickens Dorrit i. x, Having on previous occasions awaited that gentleman successively in a hall, a glass case, a waiting-room [etc.].
2. ˈglass-case. A case to hold glass-ware.
1734Hope's Minor Practicks 540 App., A Glass-case for Drinking-glasses. |