pressed glass

noun

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

First recorded in 1865–70

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

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?

They were rarely of cut or colored glass, but were pressed glass of commonplace form and quality.

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