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‖ passglas|ˈpasglas| Also pass glas, and in anglicized form pass glass |pɑːs glɑːs, pæs glæs|. Pl. ‖ passgläser, pass glasses. [Ger.] A tall, cylindrical drinking glass decorated with parallel rings or a spiral down its length.
1897A. Hartshorne Old Eng. Glasses 68 Touching the Passglas, its usual type was a tall cylindrical vessel..spaced, by fine wheeled stringings, into divisions for measuring and controlling the drinking. Ibid., Rembrandt,..in his portrait by himself at Dresden, holds up exactly such a Rhine-land Passglas. Ibid. 81 Certain rare Pass glasses are ornamented with figures of knaves from playing cards, painted in enamel on white grounds. 1907E. Dillon Glass xvi. 273 The tall pass-glass..is dated 1662. 1926W. Buckley European Glass 54 The Pass-glas is a typical German form which was made chiefly during the 17th century. It is always cylindrical, and is decorated by a stringing which sometimes encircles the glass spirally and at other times forms a number of rings more or less equidistant from one another. 1942Burlington Mag. Dec. 299/1 The vessels depicted in Dutch still-life paintings are in fact as often of German as of Italian form—the Roemer, the Passglas,..are as commonly seen as the Italianate ‘winged’ goblets. 1960H. Hayward Antique Coll. 211/1 Passglas,..a German glass beaker encircled by a notched spiral thread dividing it into equal parts so that the glass could be passed from guest to guest allowing each his allotted share. 1965A. von Saldern German Enameled Glass 145 Cylindrical Stangen with horizontal rings in multicolored enamel—so-called Pass glasses..are derived from similar glasses with applied rigaree bands or spirals; each horizontal ring is called a Pass... In drinking, the trick was to bring the wine or beer down exactly to the level of one of the rings. |