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单词 milk-glass
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milk-glass
milk-glass n. (a) a white opaline (opaline adj. 3); (b) a glass vessel applied to a woman's breast to receive excess or unwanted milk (rare).
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1869 Manufacturer & Builder May 147 This milk-glass..is easily cracked by the application of a small flame, and is very easily fusible, being a lead glass.
1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Milk-glass, a glass applied to the breast to receive the superabundant flow of milk.
1952 Good Housek. (U.S. ed.) Dec. 73/2 (caption) The table..displays a little holiday grouping of white hobnail milk-glass jars, holding candles.
1990 J. C. Oates Because it is Bitter iii. xiv. 345 The tall milk-glass lamp on Iris's bedside table casts a warm, halolike glow.
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