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ˈwine-glass
[f. wine n.1 + glass n.1 Cf. (M)LG., MHG. wînglas, (Du. wijnglas, G. weinglas), etc.]
a. A small drinking-glass for wine. Also = wineglassful.
Wine-glasses, which are characterized by having a stem and a foot, vary in shape (and, in some cases, in colour) according to the wine for which they are intended, and are distinguished as champagne glass, claret glass, port glass, etc.
1709Lond. Gaz. No. 4595/4 Wine and Water Tumblers, Beer and Wine Glasses with Covers. 1786J. Woodforde Diary 18 Aug. (1926) II. 264 She is to take a Wine Glass of the Mixture..every six Hours. 1846Jewish Man., or Pract. Information Jewish & Mod. Cookery i. 2 Pour in a wine-glass of port-wine. 1856Kane Arctic Expl. II. ii. 37, I am dealing these out to them by the wine⁓glass. 1882Floyer Unexpl. Baluch. 331 We began with minute wine-glasses of raki, red wine, purple wine.
b. attrib. Resembling a wine-glass in shape.
c. Comb., as wineglass-cooler, wine-glass-shaped adj.
1851Redding Wines (ed. 3) 370 Wine-glass coolers..should be laid on the table and the glasses reversed in them. 1884Howells Silas Lapham i, A smooth piece of interval, with half a dozen good-sized wine-glass elms in it. 1907M. C. F. Morris Nunburnholme 78 The..smaller bell, which was long and wineglass-shaped. 1908Essex Rev. XVII. 6 An old-fashioned wine-glass pulpit, with reading-desk below.
Hence ˈwineglassful, the contents of a full wine-glass; the amount that a wine-glass will hold, usually reckoned as 2 fluid ounces.
1824Scott St. Ronan's vii, My venerated instructor..took a wine-glassful of old rum..every day after his dinner. 1884M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose II. 352 A wineglassful of spirits of turpentine. |