cut-glass

See also: cutglass and cut glass

English

Adjective

cut-glass (not comparable)

1. attributive form of cut glass (“made of cut glass”)
   • 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Cut-Glass Bowl”, in Scribner's Magazine‎^[1]:

     There was a rough stone age and a smooth stone age and a bronze age, and many years afterward a cut-glass age. In the cut-glass age, when young ladies had persuaded young men with long, curly mustaches to marry them, they sat down several months afterward and wrote thank-you notes for all sorts of cut-glass presents—punch bowls, finger-bowls, dinner-glasses, […]

2. Alternative form of cutglass (“clearly enunciated”)
   • 2021 March 27, Simon Hattenstone, “Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     “Yes, I really was pinging,” she says, with that imperious cut-glass accent.

   • 2022 September 8, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     The princess had made occasional wartime radio broadcasts, her piping, stilted voice, speaking in cut-glass tones to the children of the empire, […]