| 单词 | crystal glass |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrystal glass crystal glass n. [compare Middle Low German Kristallglas] (a) = sense A. 4b; (b) = sense A. 4a.figurative in quot. 1613: an eye. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > glass or crystal vessel glass?c1225 crystal glass1567 water glass1590 crystal1630 vitrum1657 flint-glass1675 sheet glass1805 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > crystal-glass berylc1384 crystal glass1567 crystal1577 1567 A. Golding in tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) Ep. Ded. If that in a chrystall glasse fowle images they found, Resembling follies fowle visages that stand about it round. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July f. 28 v His face more cleare, then Christall glasse. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. v. sig. Ll6 Haue you euer seene a pure Rosewater kept in a christal glas; how fine it lokes, how sweet it smels? 1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age ii. ii. sig. C3 Looke on me Adon with a stedfast eye, That in these Christall glasses I may see My beauty. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xxvii. 53 I was..in Murano, a little Island,..wher Crystall-Glasse is made. 1732 E. Strother Prælectiones Pharmaco-mathicæ I. 94 Common Glass and Crystal Glass differ in their Materials, the latter being made of a finer Matter than the former. 1783 S. Moreau Tour to Cheltenham Spa 96 Others brought the art of making christal glasses for watches, and pictures, and jewellery to the greatest perfection. 1849 A. Pellatt Curiosities of Glass Making 114 The principle of casing a layer of colour upon flint crystal glass. 1872 A. C. Sampson Scarborough Belle III. xxvii. 112 On a dumb-waiter..stood two decanters, choicely cut, filled with pale golden-looking liquid, and two slender crystal glasses. 1921 Amer. Woman Jan. 20/1 (advt.) Tall 3-pint pitcher and 6 stylish bell-shaped tumblers—real hand cut, thin blown clear crystal glass. 2001 Sun 27 Jan. (TV Mag.) 12/1 (advt.) An enchanting pair of fine crystal glasses. < as lemmas |
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