strass
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noun
a flint glass with a high lead content, used to imitate gemstones.
Origin of strass
11810–20; < German, named after J. Strasser, 18th-century German jeweler who invented it
strass
2[stras]
noun
Origin of strass
21855–60; < French strasse < Italian straccio, noun derivative of stracciare to tear < Vulgar Latin *extractiare, derivative of Latin extractus (see extract)
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Historical Examples of strass
At No. 58 lived Strass, the inventor of the simili-diamonds.
Historic ParisJetta S. Wolff
The first little town that reckons in the Zillerthal is Strass, a very unpretending place, and then Schlitters.
The Valleys of TirolR. H. Busk
From strass 7000 gr.; pure calcined sesquioxide of iron (trocus martis), 65 gr.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume IIArnold Cooley
Of the transparent glass paste termed Stras or Strass we have already spoken.
JewelleryH. Clifford Smith,
In the glass known as strass, used to make imitation Diamonds, the adamantine luster is well imitated.
strass
noun
Word Origin for strass
C19: German, named after J. Strasser, 18th-century German jeweller who invented it
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