pressed glass


noun
  1. molded glass that has been shaped or given its pattern, while molten, by the action of a plunger thrust into the mold.

Origin of pressed glass

1
First recorded in 1865–70

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How to use pressed glass in a sentence

  • American writers claim that the first pressed glass tumbler was made about 40 years back in that country, by a carpenter.

    Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
  • Serafina came back, bringing two heavy tumblers of pressed glass on a little black japanned tray, with a decanter of cold water.

  • But this is imitated in pressed glass, which is blown in a mould inside of which the design is cut.

  • Did you ever do it, reader, with one of those pressed glass bottles they make now?

    If, Yes and Perhaps | Edward Everett Hale
  • They were rarely of cut or colored glass, but were pressed glass of commonplace form and quality.

    Home Life in Colonial Days | Alice Morse Earle