| 单词 | waterford crystal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWaterford crystal 1. attributive. Designating a type of fine flint glassware first produced in Waterford, Ireland, in the eighteenth cent.; of or relating to this glass. Esp. in Waterford glass, Waterford crystal. A proprietary name. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > glass-work or glassware > types of murrhine1782 Waterford1783 crystalware1805 peloton glass1881 opal ware1894 Stiegel1906 Mary Gregory1959 Nailsea1961 Vaseline1966 1783 Dublin Evening Post 4 Oct. in M. S. D. Westropp Irish Glass (1920) iii. 69 Waterford Glass House. George and William Penrose having established an extensive glass manufacture in this city, their friends and the public may be supplied with all kinds of plain and cut flint glass. 1825 1st Rep. Commissioners Educ. Ireland 274 in Parl. Papers (H. C. 400) XII. 1 Do you know any thing of a set of Waterford glass being presented to Mr. Adamson by any body? 1898 Sale Catal. in Country Life (1974) 26 Sept. 854/2 Waterford and Cork cut glass. 1917 W. J. Locke Red Planet xxi. 269 A precious old Waterford claret jug. 1964 Mrs. L. B. Johnson Diary 25 Apr. in White House Diary (1970) 125 I described the Savonnerie rug, the Waterford chandelier. 2011 Guardian (Nexis) 24 Dec. (Weekend Suppl.) 38 The fancy Wedgwood china was out, along with the special Christmas tablecloth and the Waterford crystal glasses. < as lemmas |
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