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glass-blowing

British  

noun

  1. the process of shaping a mass of molten or softened glass into a vessel, shape, etc, by blowing air into it through a tube

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“He told me about a studio in downtown Tulsa where I could take a glass-blowing class as an elective at my community college,” says Mitchell, who was studying business at Tulsa Community College.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2024

There, archaeologists discovered pieces of raw glass, glass-melting furnaces, utilitarian glass vessels and debris from glass-blowing.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2023

My students created fun process stories about niche talents like woodworking and glass-blowing.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2023

As she was a living link with the glass-blowing past, he surely would have got more than a hint of it.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2022

Before the incandescent lamp was perfected, the only illumination was from gasoline gas; and that was used later for incandescent-lamp glass-blowing, which was done in another small building on one side of the laboratory.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis

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