spun glass
AmericanEtymology
Origin of spun glass
First recorded in 1770–80
Example Sentences
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This delicate young woman marries a desert prince who, fearing she’ll melt in the staring sun, builds for her an underground palace made of spun glass.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2021
Yet it’s the illusion she conveys of transparency — as if she were indeed made of spun glass — that lets us perceive so clearly a blinding darkness within.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2017
A quartet of contrasting hopes and desires, “How Beautiful the Days” is as delicate and prismatic as spun glass.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2014
So well has the mesh worked that it is fast replacing spun glass and steel wool camouflage covers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beside her are several spun glass globes, corked shut.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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